American novelists

in Ohio. They met there and married in the year of 1869. The couple later returned to Kansas and bought a farm just northwest of Lawrence near Lakeview. Charles Langston worked as a farmer, a teacher, an editor of The Historic Times, an African American Lawrence newspaper, and as a partner in at a local grocery store. At some point in time before Charles' death in 1892, the family moved from their farm in Lakeview to 732 Alabama Street in Lawrence. Langston Hughes' mother, Carolina…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist known for his depiction of the Jazz Age. In his short story, “The Four Fists,” he wrote about a wealthy, arrogant, spoiled, young man named Samuel Meredith who have undergone significant changes as he learns valuable life lessons. Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald accomplish character development through physical appearance, speech and actions, reaction of the character to other characters, and the character's inner thoughts and feelings. Moreover,…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He was an African-American poet, columnist, dramatist, and novelist. Hughes is known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. With a complex ancestry, Langston Hughes’s paternal great-grandmothers were enslaved African-Americans and both of his paternal great-grandfathers were white slave owners in Kentucky. (Wagner 12) Mr. Hughes was raised by his grandmother, Mary Langston. (Wagner 14) His grandmother…

Abstract The present study attempts to analyses selected works of the two eminent American authors on whom very little research work seems to have been undertaken through the angle of Black aesthetics. Richard Wright and Toni Morrison novelists are an effort to bring out the central theme of the Black American experience in an unjust society like America. Compare and contrast the ways that these two American writers have conceived the relationship between racial oppression (black) and the…

Novelist and poet, James Baldwin, expresses himself on a hearty topic in his essay, “If Black Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” Through carefully-structured wording and literary devices such as allusion, James Baldwin depicts the intricacy of languages and the significance of the black language in America. Written in 1979, Baldwin enlightens the readers on the desperate need for man to be able to vocalize his thoughts through language, the importance of a specific language in America,…

studying Zora Neale Hurston one will notice a number of major themes inside of her works. During the Harlem Rennisance the 'New Negro Movement” came about and Zora Neale Hurston served as an influential role during this time period. Hurston is a novelist, anthropologist, and folklorist. Hurston 's poetry and writings can be recognized for her keen way of relaying her feelings about racial division throughout her works. The common themes of ' 'african pride ' and the female identity can be…

version symbolizes, as Klotman says, “the world of the first grade basic reader-middle-class, secured, suburban and white, replete with dog, cat, non-working mother and leisure time father” (123). It represents seemingly ideal, rich, white profile of American society (represented by the Fisher’s family in the novel), which exercises an unconstructive power on the lives of the black children and their families whereas at the same time excludes them from the main stream society. The second version…

America and Her Roots Through America's indigenous art form; jazz, to the works of American artists such as Jackson Pollock and Romare Bearden, and to the impact of famous works of literature such as The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald. America's culture has a unique identity that has been uprooted ever since the beginning of her history. Throughout her history, America "the great" has forged her cultural identity to be a land of progress, democracy, corruption, and a country full of…

eventually made him, “one of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement” (”James Baldwin Biography”). His essays, short stories, poems, novels, and screenplays broke all sorts of barriers on racial issues at the time. Like many other African-Americans of his time, Baldwin was racially harassed throughout most of his life, but he chose to release his frustration towards this discrimination on paper. His hatred towards this segregation of races became so great, that he left the United States…

Fitzgerald this is more true. Kenneth Eble was assiduous to Fitzgerald's work saying, “It took critics a long time to recognize that a writer like Fitzgerald could be more than superficially romantic, an even longer time to realize that he was, as a novelist, intuitively historical” (Eble, 3). While Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” pervades under many high school student’s repertoire today, the novel was not truly recognized as a classic until 73 years after it was published and 58 years…