According to Mo Walsh “…southern gothic literature [is] popular across the globe…” (Walsh 1), due to the historical appeal of the storyline described above. One of the greatest Southern Gothic writers of all time is Zora Neale Hurston. Her societal views on racism expressed heavily in her writing challenged commonly held beliefs among a myriad of individuals. Hurston’s works such as Their Eyes are Watching God and “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”, display her use of literary elements to describe the racial injustices and cultural pride throughout her time period. In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”, by Zora Neal Hurston, Hurston employs the oyster knife symbol, the rock symbol and the brown bag symbol to illustrate her pride in her racial culture and identity.
Munoz, Anthony Mrs. Bargaineer English III 6 March 2011 Nikki Giovanni established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. She has made an impact on writing today through her unrelenting passion and devotion to literature and poetry. One of her most famous books that she has written would be "Bicycles: Nikki Giovanni Collection". Through this book, she writes about love and life; her use of emotion, truth, erotic imagery, and literary devices all come together into one single masterpiece. Lets dig deeper into those little things that make her one of the most profound poets in American Literature.
Robert Olen Mr. Pagel ENGL 1010 February 11, 2012 "homage to my hips" Lucille Clifton was a woman of great pride in herself as well as her heritage. The poem "homage to my hips" was not the first poem that she wrote honoring certain assets that involved her physical appearance. Mrs. Clifton also wrote the poems "Homage of Mine", and "homage to my hair." The poems were written in the sixties, but not published until later after a public reading in New York, where Random House ask Lucille to submit a manuscript of some of her works. There are plenty of examples in the poem that portrays the struggles of the time for women, not to mention her struggling nationality that has been fighting for equal rights for over a century.
An American Author: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s brought her culture to main stream America through her writing about her life and her African American culture. As a child she went through many things with her mother dying, her father beating her and treating her terrible, and being passed around her family from house to house. Some way some how she managed to make it through it all. Zora played a major part in the Harlem Renaissance and was an excellent novelist. That is why she has become a wonderful writer of today’s literature.
Both authors were born and raised in the South during segregation in the early 20th century. They shared a great respect and affection for books and reading and so made careers in writing books. But they also had many differences, to begin with they were of different races and gender. Welty grew up in a modest home raised by both parents, who instilled in her their love of reading. Wright on the other hand was raised in poverty by his religious grandmother who distrusted any other book but the bible.
Eudora Welty The author I chose to research was Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty was a very interesting author whose passion for writing was inspirational. Through the research of Eudora’s life it clearly shown that her life in the south had a big impact on her writing later on in life. Eudora Welty is an inspirational author whose writing moves people. Eudora Welty was born April 13th, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi.
She became one of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, written in 1934, combines folklore with biblical themes centered around her parents’ marriage. To read Jonah’s Gourd Vine is to understand some of her feelings about slavery, oppression, recovery from oppression as well as to gain a little perspective on her own life. Their Eyes Were Watching God, written in 1937 is considered her masterpiece, and it is filled with imagery, rich characters, and delightful prose. The reader follows Janie as she grows up, gets married, becomes widowed at a young age, takes up with the interesting young man called Teacake, and is eventually tried for his murder .
Eudora Welty is a well-known Southern author, whose fiction has a strong sense of place and her fiction is located in the Old South. In the short story, “The Worn Path,” Welty explores and develops the archetypical journey of Phoenix Jackson who is walking to Natchez, Mississippi. In relating the journey, Welty grounds her story in the reality of the Old South, uses a device that swings between action and individual contemplation, and uses a plot that is structured around community rituals. As in most of her fictions, Welty firmly grounds “The Worn Path” in reality. Marilyn Arnold in her article “Eudora Welty” published in MagillOnLiteraturePlus states that every writer needs “a deep sense of place” (5).
Introduction Among the most promising American short story writers to emerge during the 1980s, Moore is well-known due to her clever wordplay, irony, and sardonic humor of her creative writing, all of which usually masks an underlying sadness or trauma experienced by her characters. Moore sketches the character in their stories as they are real and are living being (Roberts, pg 181-183). She gets inspiration from the events happening around her. Discussion Lorrie Moore is one of the most respected literary writers of her generation. She was born in Glen Falls, New York; Moore was interested in creative writing as a young child.
Zora effectively drew in individuals with her enthusiasm forever. In the wake of moving on from Barnard with a degree in Anthropology she got a cooperation to come back to Eatonville and considered and recorded the oral customs of that range. With her enthusiasm for black people, she was well known as a storyteller and casual execution craftsman. Her written work concentrated on the society conventions and she was an extraordinarily skilled author with ability for catching the voice of her