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20 Cards in this Set
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"America's most visible black autobiographer." I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and JUST GIVE ME A COOL DRINK OF WATER BEFORE I DIE
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Maya Angelo
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Cultural movement during the Jazz Age -- 20s and 30s. Prominent writers include James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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Jamaican writer and poet. Wrote HOME TO HARLEM; BANJO; BANANA BOTTOM; A LONG WAY FROM HOME and HARLEM: A NEGRO METROPOLIS
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Claude McKay
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Civil rights activist, poet and writer who wrote AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN, BLACK MANHATTAN, THE BOOK OF NEGRO SPIRITUALS and GOD'S TROMBONES
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James Weldon Johnson
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Folklorist, anthropologist and author. Best known for novel THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD and the short stories, MULES AND MEN, TELL MY HORSE, THE GREAT DAY. Influenced Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Novelist, playwright and short story writer who may have been gay. His story BLESSED ASSURANCE deals with his father's anger over his effeminacy. Themes: Black in Beautiful.
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Langston Hughes
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Works by Langston Hughes
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NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS and the play MULE BONE. Also the book I WONDER AS I WANDER
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Works by Countee Allen
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I HAVE A RENDEVOUS WITH LIFE
COLOR COPPER SON THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL THE BLACK CHRIST TABLEAU |
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Prose by Countee Allen
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"One way to heaven."
"The lost zoo" "My lives" |
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English romantic novelist in the early 1800s known for her biting social commentary and realism.
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen novel about Elinore and Marianne Dashwood, whose father dies and leaves them in reduced circumstances. The girls and their sisters move to a cottage in Barton Park and they find love
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Sense and Sensibility
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Col. Brandon, John Willoghby and Edward Ferrars
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Romantic interests of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen novel about Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with the issue of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the landed gentry
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Pride and Prejudice
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Mr. Darcy
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Love interest of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen novel about misconstrued romance. Main character is rich, handsome and clever and overestimates her matchmaking abilities
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Emma
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Mr. Knightly
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Love interest of Emma
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Jane Austen novel about Fanny Price, raised by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram.
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Mansfield Park
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American author of fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery from the 1950s.
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Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury novel about the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing a devastated Earth; and the conflict that results between the martians and the colonists. Uses a thin frame of a story to link various short stories.
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Martian Chronicles
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Ray Bradury's dystopian (nightmarish) novel which presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Novel is a critique of American Society during the cold war.
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Fahrenheit 451
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