She began her studies at the New School for Social Research. She later landed a job as a writer and associate editor for the Freedom newspaper. Hansberry had many jobs on the side but she soon dropped all her jobs and focused her time on writing. During this time she wrote A Raisin in the Sun (previously named The Crystal Stair). The play is about a struggling black family in Chicago.
Her use of imagery and personification throughout the writing draws the reader into the sick mind of a young mother struggling to find herself again and broaches the issue of feminism. According to the Online Literature website, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. Her father, a librarian, abandoned the family early on and Charlotte was often looked after by her Great aunt and uncle, Harriet and Henry Beecher. Henry was a social reformer and Harriet was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Due to the strong social and literary influences, Charlotte was drawn to literature and began writing at a young age.
Kara Walker Kara Walker is an contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California. Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant and was inspired by her family to reveal her own artistic talents. My first impression of her work is that she portrays scenes from African American plantation life, however, I noticed that sexual and violent, images are represented repeatedly in her landscapes.
Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is an African-American artist and author who was born in 1930 in Harlem, New York City, and who is best known for her large, painted story quilts. As a child, she was taught to sew fabrics creatively by her mother and to make quilts by her great-great grandmother. Ringgold’s great-great grandmother was a slave in her younger years, and during those times she made quilts. The art of quilt making quickly grew into a Ringgold family tradition. Quilts served various purposes: warmth, preserving memories and storytelling.
Her parents were both slaves, but her grandmother had been emancipated and owned her own home, earning a living as a baker. When Jacobs was six years old, her mother died, and she was sent to the home of her mother's mistress, Margaret Horniblow. Horniblow taught the young Jacobs to read, spell, and sew; she died when Jacobs was eleven or twelve and willed Jacobs to Mary Matilda Norcom, Horniblow's threeyear-old niece. While living in the Norcom household, Jacobs suffered the sexual harassment of Dr. James
Darlene Scott Mrs. Cobbs English 102 Research Paper 03/13/2011 In “Their Eyes were Watching God” religion plays an important role in the characters lives The book was influenced by her reading of black love of the south. She wrote the novel during the Harlem Renaissance. This played a critical role in how the story was written. It was a time when blacks started to gain power. They were no longer controlled by the whites.
The black American literary tradition and the black woman’s litetary treadition started with one woman whose name was Phillis Wheatley. She expressed herself as a poet at the time when people in America were still practicing slavery and more importantly she influenced the way of thinking. She was expressing her own thoughts and she was talking about her own experiences as an enslaved person who was taken from her parents in Africa and brought to the New World to be a servant. She also had the luck that the majority of black people at that time did not, she was educated by the same educators as the children of her owners, and this fact allowed her to express herself as a very influental poet later on. What classifies her as an American poet are many uniquely American themes in her work.
Freeman, who is best known for her local color stories, writes in “The Revolt of `Mother`“ about a small New England town at the end of the 19th century which was a time of great change. Freeman understands to point out the dialect, rural setting and history of the this particular location. This research paper deals with the “Representation of Women“ in the short story “The Revolt of `Mother`“ by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. In the beginning, a short biography and background information about the author and the short story itself is provided. After that, the reader can find out about the main aspect of this research paper, namely how women are presented in Freeman‘s short story.
ntroduction The theme I chose to write about for my paper was race/ethnicity. For the literary works, I will compare and contrast “What It's Like To Be A Black Girl” by Patricia Smith who is African-American and “Child Of The Americas” by Aurora Morales who is Latino. Being born in America, an important fact for both because minorities in the United States have experienced racism and prejudice for years compared to other countries. The stories tell about two young women who are both from different cultures and beliefs. The poems deal with racism ans discrimination.
Body: A. Maya was encouraged by her dance teacher to explore the world of literature. However, it was not until after working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that she realized that she had a natural like for words; she had a gift for being able to express her thoughts, feelings and ideas literally. 1. After moving to Egypt in 1960 with her South African activist husband, Maya served as editor of the Arab Observer. In 1970 after two years of perfecting her life on paper her autobiography “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was completed and published for the whole world to read.