20th-century women writers

period, that the Clutters were murdered, men were seen as the head of the house and in order to be the alpha of your family and protect your family you would have to have masculinity. The fourth theme in the book is women and femininity being that even though it was the 1950’s women had freedom to pursue their careers in contrast they also had to stay at home and take care of the kids, which many couldn’t…

Morgan Parker’s “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé’ is essentially this, a work of art. Parker is an African-American poet and editor. In her anthology, she explores black womanhood by using pop-cultural references and politics in the 21st century. Parker’s poems include personal narrative and criticism of pop-culture. Parker analyzes and approaches topics such as current media, women's…

Freeman Comp. 111 Dorothy Parker Though her name is not known by all, her words are spoken by many. Dorothy Parker was a woman of strength and attitude whose prose, poetry, and short stories have lived on in literary relevance through almost a century. Her modernist views were criticized, her status as a female author scorned, and her brilliance was envied. If it were not for being Black Listed in the 50’s Parker would have been a name of legends. She is an example of living art in that her…

father was a noted Unitarian minister of old New England stock whose sudden death in 1811 left the family to struggle in genteel poverty. Although left without means, Emerson’s mother and his aunt, Mary Moody Emerson, were energetic and resourceful women who managed to survive by taking in boarders, accepting the charity of relatives, and teaching their boys the New England values of thrift, hard work, and mutual assistance within the family. Frail as a child, Emerson attended Boston Latin…

to serve in combat and women volunteered to serve in as many ways deemed possible. These brave women served in the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, Women's Army Corps (WAC), Army Air Forces, the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve,…

Trudier Harris is a modern feminist writer and a part of the African-American community. She writes commentaries about the feminist messages, or lack thereof, in popular writings. In one such review, quoted above, she criticizes Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, a seminal work of 20th century literature. Harris especially disapproves of the relationships of Janie, the novel’s protagonist, with various men. Although Harris is correct in that Janie is often outwardly passive,…

For instance, how will women ever reach the lighthouse when they cannot even leave the shore? In order to answer this question, it is important to analyze the lighthouse as an identity and symbol of femininity as opposed to a literal landmark. The lights of a non-metaphoric lighthouse…

His primary sources of inspiration were the writers he grew up with, his family, and the South. The 1960s were perhaps the most difficult years for Williams, as he experienced some of his hardest treatment from the press. His plays, which received criticism for openly addressing taboo topics, were…

focuses on characters rather than incidents. It is an entertaining read with humorous moments juxtaposed against observations and failings of the human heart. Introduction: R. K. Narayan, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist, is now regarded as one of the greatest of Indian writers in English who have succeeded in sensitively portraying the…

the Russian people, the concept of what was applicable to the modern Soviet woman was something shrouded in dispute. Whilst contributing to a large part of the population, women were often considered somewhat less or lower than the Russian man during the time of the Tsars. This new period of revolution meant an opportunity for women to be seen in a new light, and in new social, and political aspects. Whether or not this would be successful was yet to be seen. The social liberties of the new…