20th-century women writers

show depicted the societal roles of men and women, showing Lucy’s subservience to her husband Ricky, which fit into society’s idea of a woman in her proper place. However, the show also challenged the roles of men and women set by their predecessors. Lucille Ball’s character appealed to many women of the time period who yearned for something more than being a housewife. The news article goes on to say, "Women identified with Lucy … She showed that (women) could be hungry to do more with their…

this assignment I decided to interview Professor Elif Armbruster from Suffolk University's, English department. Professor Armbruster research interest are American Realism (1870-1920), American Domestic Architecture (especially late 19th/early 20th century) and Women’s Literature. Even though, I could have interviewed another professor from the English department which I don’t know, by conducting this interview I got to know more of Professor Armbruster. Also, I really owe her for motivating me…

tale of lost love, with the protagonist searching for what was once his. It may be a coming-of-age story, where the main character discovers what was inside all along. It may be a fantasy, a comedy, but most importantly, happiness is whatever the writer makes it. Like any story, happiness draws on from the author’s own ideals and values. What would The Lord of the Flies be without Golding’s view of human nature, or Nineteen Eighty-Four without Orwell’s wariness of nationalism? Claim: In order…

described an estate system, which was a hierarchal society based on rules and tradition and finally a class system based on economics. This economic contained no legal restrictions, allowing for some social mobility between classes. Indigenous Aztec women suffered greatly under these systems. Since white females made up a minuscule percentage of the population, indigenous females experienced high levels of exploitation and sexual…

immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time, but inspires new ideas that are constantly built upon and reflected in everyday life. During the Enlightenment a new style of art began to emerge, Rococo. Townhouses in…

Resistance literature is a very common type of literary works , this term was firstly used by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani when he applied it to the under-occupation and exile Palestinian literature. Another critics such as Franz Fanon and Epifanio Juan consider Third World literature as a literature of Resistance as it paint a n image of the miserable life in these countries and what they suffer from . this kind of literature represents a revolution against any oppression or…

In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. This turkish word describes a kind of melancholy, he says, not so much a personal state as one shared by an entire society, a mood of resigned despair for the great past - a murky, black white…

Leon Litwack, an American historian, uses the personal testimonies and memories of black Southerners in his book Trouble in Mind, in order to describe the terrible injustices they faced regularly in the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow South. Litwack pulls no punches when describing what everyday life was like for Southern African Americans between the 1870s and the Great Depression. Though this book is not a chronological telling of segregation, the author guides the audience through the…

Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005), an acclaimed 20th century American play and screen writer, most famous for conflicting guilt and hope within characters in his plays. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City into a family of immigrants from Polish and Jewish descents, Miller had spent most of his youth surrounded by literature. With his mother, which whom he was very close to, being an educator and a novel enthusiast. After graduating high school Miller began working to save up…

The earliest years of Maya Angelou was dark and silent. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother Vivian Johnson was a nurse and realtor while her father Bailey Johnson was a naval dietician. Her birth name was Marguerite Annie Johnson and it was in her early twenties that she adopted her famous stage name Maya Angelou. Her early childhood was spent being raised by her paternal grandmother Annie Henderson after her parent’s divorce. She lived behind a grocery store that…