She won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, one was for fiction in 1982 and one was for poetry in 1987. During this time, she also met her literary agent, Susan Bergholz, who after seeing a small packet of short stories encouraged Cisneros to develop them into one what was to become Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros won many awards for this including: the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Qualitiy Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal. In 1995, Cisneros won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She moved to San Antonio where she has she is now lecturing to students at a local arts center.
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904). Writer. Born in St. Louis, Mo. Regular contributor of feminist short stories to literary journals. Her novel `The Awakening' (1899) shocked many people with its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and artistic longings.
It is evident that O’Connor uses the literary tools characterization, setting, and symbolism in two of her most famous short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Revelation”, in order to have the greatest impact on her readers. Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O'Connor “is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century” (A&E Television Networks). O’Connor wrote an abundant amount of short stories during her lifetime. “She wrote about religious themes and southern life” (A&E Television Networks). In most of her works, O’Connor describes the scenery and lifestyle of the Deep South and her characters speak with a southern dialect, reflecting her background.
The autobiography is now frequently read as a complement to non fictional works that delve into the subject of racism. The autobiography tells that the strength of character and a love of literature helped Maya Angelou overcoming racism and trauma. The autobiography begins with three years old Maya and her older brother Bailey, they both are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Reviewers often categorize I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as autobiographical fiction because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, but some critical view
This essay will argue that In both texts motherhood and marriage is shown to be a hindrance to both women’s careers and their female identity. The theme of marriage in The Bell Jar and Top Girls Is shown to demolish the female identity of the women. In The Bell Jar Plath uses Buddy as a symbolic figure to show how even the “clean” men of that time were only out for one
One of her first plays,"Am I Blue," a one-act play was written while at Southern Methodist University in 1973. In 1978 she finished her first masterpiece “Crimes of the Heart”, a play about three maladjusted sisters who lived in the South. She won many awards and honors for this play, like the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. The play then went on to win several more awards, including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best new American play and the big one, the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1981. It also received a Tony Award nomination for best play and an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay in 1986.
Sharon Olds’ Poetry Explained Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and received education from Stanford and Columbia University. She married a man in the late 1960s and is the mother of a son and daughter. That marriage eventually ended and the painful breakup has influenced her poetry heavily. Olds writes continuously, and only after an extensive amount of time has passed she feels the need to put together poems that comprise a book. She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities.
English 101 Essay #1 Humor as a Rhetorical Startagy Known for her award winning novel "Shell Shaker" a book with a collection of Native American Poems and short stories, Leanne Howe uses a couple of her poems from her book to address cultural, racial, historical, emotional and political problems surrounding Native American mascots and perceptions. Howe’s purpose is to reveal to readers how many people have come to view Native Americans and Native American mascots. She adopts a humerous tone in order to appeal to the emotions and experiences of her readers. Using humor as a rhetorical strategy has huge disadvantages, one of which is the point the author is trying to make getting lost in the humor of the publishing. In the comics from the book The World is a Text they use humor to let the audience or reader see a lighter side of sterotyping Native Americans.
London Sylvester English III/West April 11, 2008 Under the Radar You may ask the question: Who is Judith Ortiz Cofer? Most people wouldn’t be able to answer that question, but this paper will. Judith Ortiz Cofer, born in 1952, is an acclaimed Puerto Rican author. Her works span a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young Adult novels. Cofer born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico moved to the United States in 1956 with her family to Paterson, New Jersey.
Good novels with political themes are a rare treat. Here we have not one but two: along with Butterflies comes MotherTongue by Chicana poet Demetria Martinez, winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Fiction. Her story of a young Chicana who falls in love with a Salvadoran