Southern Gothic is a type of writing done by many writers in the American South. Usually, it includes strange, bizarre, or supernatural events. In 1961, Lee won a very important award for the book, called the Pulitzer Prize. To Kill a Mockingbird is semi-autobiographical which means that it is loosely based on events and people from the author's own life. The names of the characters, however, are different in the book.
In A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine, David H. Jackson Jr. tells the life of Charles Banks leading African American entrepreneur and adherent to Booker T. Washington's strategy of self-help and racial uplift in the Jim Crow South. Charles Banks became a retail merchant, bank founder, mill owner, and a founder and leading citizen of the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Jackson attributes Bank's achievements as a hard worker and business men. Charles Banks was a famous Black leader, like Jessie Jackson. Banks spent most of his life in a discriminating and violent town.
Slavery has been a part of our history for hundreds of years. Eventually abolitionist movements helped outlaw slavery, but still today it is a controversial topic in society. Gary Collison, who is a Caucasian English professor at Pennsylvania State University, wrote the novel Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. He wrote this book to voice the truth about hardships of slavery and discrimination. Collison follows Minkins throughout the continent as he is a slave in Norfolk, VA, a fugitive in Boston, and a free black man in Montreal.
Slavery, imprisonment, racism, and prejudice in My Bondage, My Freedom. Frederick Douglas’ My Bondage, My Freedom greatly influences what the author experienced in his life. During the 1800’s slavery was a big influence on literature in America, especially for slaves because most of them were illiterate, slavery was most likely the only thing they had to write about. Frederick Douglas’ autobiography, My Bondage, My Freedom, is reflective of slavery during the 1800s because of his description of the terrible life as a slave and adapting to life after slavery. He experienced the American slavery, escaped from it, and attached himself to the cause of freedom and the helping of his people to achieve freedom.
I actually read a book and did a little research on Phenix City a few years back, but our field trip tied everything together. The Phenix City Story is a one-of-a-kind window into a sordid and fascinating period in American crime history. The namesake suggests a glorious bird arisen from the ashes of defeat, but Phenix City, Alabama, at this point in its long history, was anything but glorious. A small town just across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus, Georgia, Phenix City had long been controlled by mob and criminal interests in gambling, prostitution, drugs and racketeering. The crime town was a boon to the criminal underworld.
s Chantel Petty @02597382 December 12, 2011 Introduction to Humanities Dr. Shinn Final Research Paper Under the general rubric of slave narrative falls any account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave himself or herself. Slave narratives comprise one of the most influential traditions in American literature, shaping the form and themes of some of the most celebrated and controversial writing, in both autobiography and fiction, in the history of the United States. After slavery was abolished in North America in 1865, at least fifty former slaves wrote or dictated book-length accounts of their lives. During the Depression of the 1930s, the Federal
Vital Speech of the Day Citation: William Faulkner, “Noble prize acceptance speech.” December 10, 1950. Context: William Faulkner, the first American novelist to receive the prize since the end of World War 2. He wrote novels, short stories, play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his life. William is one of the most important writers in the Southern literature of the United States. His novels and short stories are the most famous.
From its simple and primitive origins, not only has the Blues affected culture throughout the Deep South, but Southern culture has had a strong influence on the creation of the Blues and its musicians. The Blues’ unique sound came from the slave songs, such as the work songs and field hollers of the enslaved African Americans (PBS). Nearly every song on the radio today has its roots in the Delta Blues. Although the Blues is definitely from the Mississippi Delta, the date and exact location of the place of origin will forever remain unknown. However, Dockery Farms claims to be the place where the Blues began.
G. Simmons English 1102 Summer 2011 L. James Reading Response 3 July 15, 2011 A Rose For Emily The short story ‘A Rose for Emily’ was one of the best and most widely read stories in the 20th century and still is relevant in the current world of literature. The author of the story was Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American; he wrote it in the 1930s deriving its setting from one of the largest states in the United States, Mississippi. The story has several occurrences where the characters evoke strong reactions. However, in this case the occurrence where Emily’s body is found dead on her bed together with Homer’s body is considered the most evocative. Homer’s body was in a worse state than that of Emily suggesting that he died earlier than she did.
How can the voice of one individual represent or engulf the many hidden voices of a repressed people? Langston Hughes, a prominent figure in American literature captures at best, both the pride and plight of the African-American people at the turn of the twentieth century. He had written hundreds of literary pieces by the time of his death in May 1967; a few of those pieces were “The Big Sea” (1940), “I Wonder as I Wander” (1956), “The Weary Blues” (1926), and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921). One of his most famous poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” carries with it, embedded in its language and content, “personal anguish…alchemized by the poet, into a gracious meditation on his race…” (Arnold Rampersad, “The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes,” from The Southern Review 21, no.3 (July 1985). The significance of this poem to me is the surge of inspiration Langston Hughes grasps as he associates “The Rivers” with the bridge between past and present.