English 2400 Final

Front 1

Edith Eaton

Back 1

"Ms. Spring Fragrance"
-First writer to talk about Asian culture without religion
-story about mother who loses child during immigration
-child does not want to go back to mother in the end

Front 2

Gertrude Bonnin

Back 2

"The School Days of an Indian Girl"
-first Indian writer without a translator of any sort
-about a girl who conforms to white society, becomes a great orator

Front 3

Gertrude Bonnin

Back 3

"The School Days of an Indian Girl"
-first Indian writer without a translator of any sort
-about a girl who conforms to white society, becomes a great orator

Front 4

Booker T. Washington

Back 4

"Up From Slavery"
-mentions his Atlanta speech at the convention
-Uplift movement
-gradual integration
-cast your bucket down
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Front 5

W.E.B. DuBois

Back 5

The Souls of Black Folk
-disagrees with Washington
-rights to freedoms/equality in Constitution.
-talented tenth
-double consciousness

Front 6

Booker T. Washington

Back 6

Up from Slavery
-Uplift movement
-gradual integration
-submissive
-Atlanta convention speech

Front 7

Edith Eaton

Back 7

Ms. Spring Fragrance
-First Asian to write about culture without religion
-mother who loses child during immigration
-child does not want to go back to mother in the end

Front 8

Gertrude Bonnin

Back 8

The school days of an Indian girl
-first indian writer to not use a translator
-schooling of a girl who conforms to white society
-she becomes a great orator

Front 9

Langston Hughes

Back 9

I, too, harlem, when the negro was in vogue, the weary blues
-best african-american poet
-Harlem Renaissance
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Front 10

Zora Hurston

Back 10

Sweat
-had characters talk like black people actually do
-wife who doesn't get along with her husband
-husband gets killed by a snake

Front 11

Richard Wright

Back 11

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
-stories of lessons learned through various jobs of how to act during racism
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Front 12

Art Speilgemen

Back 12

Maus
-about a family who deals with the holocaust
-comic book, meta-narrative
-inversion (low quality media mixed with deep issues)

Front 13

Gwendolyn Brooks

Back 13

The Mother
-about an abortion
-Bronzeville
-no free will?

Front 14

Toni Morrison

Back 14

Recitaif
-about two orphans who grow up together
-can't tell who is black or white
-they get along, fight, get along, fight again
-maggie

Front 15

Toni Bambara

Back 15

The lesson
-black kids go to nice toy store, can't afford anything
-they realize they don't have an equal crack at the dough

Front 16

Maxine Kingston

Back 16

No Name Woman
-aunt who commits adultery
-no one speaks of it, not speaking is a huge theme
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Front 17

Louise Erdrich

Back 17

Saint Marie
-girl becomes nun, gets harassed by the Devil, her mother (the head nun)
-tries to kill mother
-Indian rebellion to Christianity
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Front 18

Sherman Alexie

Back 18

Because my father always said...
-Jimi Hendrix nut
-kind of crazy, idealist
-child is too
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