African literature

“A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature.” – Suzan-Lori Parks The medium of literature allows authors, writers, and dramatists to recreate history and tell the stories of those who have been often overlooked. Suzan-Lori Parks does this by using certain people and events throughout history, including her own life, to retell the black experience in an unconventional manner. Parks is an important figure in American theatre…

The literary work that I read this module was a good look into how literature has developed in America. Most of the literature we read had to do with very controversial topics that, even though they were written quite a long time ago, still play a big role in today’s society. Over all, I found it very interesting reading and learning about how these issues were brought about and how they were dealt with on both sides of the argument. These topics mainly related to race, religion, and most of all…

Eudora Welty, a Mississippian writer, wrote stories of life and passion, focusing on human emotions rather than their actions. Originating from a life of literature and photography, Welty exhibited an understanding of existence far beyond others. She had a way with words that was generally applauded, yet she spoke little about her own life. Despite her sense of independence, Welty kept a sense of humbleness and invited many to her house for a conversation. While she is known for her deep sense…

In the modernism era of literature (1914-1945) William Faulkner wrote several books, short stories, and articles about children, families, sex, race, with fixations and life in the south. I did not feel that “A Rose for Emily” should have been selected to appear in literature books or curriculums for college or high school for that time period. This short story was not a “yardstick” For literature in this era. William Faulkner refuses to discuss his works in interviews. He does not like to…

No less an authority on literature than Leo Tolstoy wrote that there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. The same is true for English teachers: There are as many reasons to teach literature as there are teachers of literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that…

picture, heighten the senses, and pull at us emotionally. I believe that all children can learn to read in a classroom that is integrated with differentiated instruction and has a safe and engaging learning environment which is rich with a variety of literature to light that…

within the country. Although these have not completely stopped, writers have been using all kinds of literature to resolve them one step at a time. For years and years, social inequality has been a rising issue for teens in America, yet the human population still fails to end it. Because everyone needs to bring awareness and realize the problems caused by social inequity, authors use genres of literature as a tool to help them accomplish this. To start off, there is a major problem affecting…

We live in a world that is diverse and around people that have issues whether it is mental physical or spiritual. In addition with people that suffered from abuse, domestic violence, and etc. I remeber in high school when my teacher was showing my class a video on the ending results of gun violence and crime at that time my cousin had just passed away and it brought back terrible flashbacks in my mind. Unfortunately I was not warned about what was going to be shown and it did have an negative…

The 20th century was changing the world, slaves were no longer legal, the country was being quickly industrialized, and the idea of moral ambiguity was making its way into literature as seen in the works of Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, and Flannery O’ Connor. Jack Smurch, a character from the short story “The Greatest Man In The World, by James Thurber, is the first man to try, and succeed to fly around the world without stopping. When he accomplishes this feat, the media rushes to get…

44100% generalous and race less”. FurthermoreWriting for Naylor is a way of defining identity as Naylor relateswith her 1985 “Conversation” with Tony Morrison, in her creativewriting class she learned that in order to write good literature,one had to read good literature .She is the first black Afro-American writer to read her predecessors .The list included Tillie Olson, Henry Jones and Toni Morrison but it wasMorrison’s The bluest Eye …