American novelists

In November 1924, while Hughes was working at a hotel restaurant he ran into American poet Vachel Lindsay who was impressed with his work and promoted his writings launching his career. There soon in 1925 Hughes poem “The Weary Blues” won first prize in the Opportunity magazine literary competitions. With Hugh’s gaining fame on his…

best known of modern Negro American writers .Also was the only Negro poet who lived entirely on the professional earning of his literary activities in a diverse literary career. He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist .He received his first prize in 1925 from opportunity magazine and went on to become a major figure of Harlem renaissance. He confronted racial stereotypes, and expanded African American image itself. African American Fragment This poem bring…

Chinese immigrants had come to San Francisco as early as 1838, but large numbers of Chinese only began to come in 1850 for the same reason many Americans were going to California during the 1849 Gold Rush. The Chinese immigrants were mainly peasant farmers who left home because of economic and political troubles in China. Most intended to work hard, make a lot of money, and then return to their families and villages as wealthy men. In this goal, the Chinese did not differ from many immigrants…

The novelist, Ralph Ellison, demonstrates issues that were occurring in his society in a novel called “Invisible Man”. Ralph Ellison was born and raised in Oklahoma City in the early 1900s. This was an era where minorities were discriminated against their race and were not able to associate themselves with whites. Fortunately, Ellison had a chance to travel to the north where society was different in terms of racial tension, there he had the chance to have different experiences from the south.…

Langston Hughes was a famous African-American literary figure born in 1902. Although Hughes was primarily recognized by his many poems, he also had different types of writings in his literary career that portrayed him as a novelist, playwright, and children’s books author. Hughes was a strong and inspiring person who had faced obstacles throughout his lifetime; many of which ended in saddening disappointments. One major shift in his point of view that impacted his life was the dreadful…

Baldwin’s Rhetoric James Baldwin is a novelist, poet, playwright, and critic from Harlem. He spent much of his life in other countries, however, he is still an American writer. He was alive during the time of Jim Crow laws, which segregated black people from white people in the United States. He is a black man in this time of discrimination and unequal rights for black citizens, making his outlook about language different from a white man’s. In his rhetoric, titled “If Black English Isn’t a…

Langston Hughes is an African American poet, novelist, playwright and more. He was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. He was raised by his grandmother until he was 13 years old, because his parents divorced when he was still young. He then “moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband”. Eventually they settled in Cleveland, Ohio. His full name is Jame Mercer Langston Hughes. He published his first poetry book in 1926, wich was called “the weary…

Jazz Music What is Jazz Music and A Brief History About It “Jazz is considered an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz music is considered a rich artistic heritage, a result of cultural collaboration and a universal language of tolerance and freedom.” Jazz is called "America's Classical Music" and is considered America's only true art form, jazz materialized in the United States in the early 1900s in New Orleans specially. The city's diversified population included people of…

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick is an American Writer, novelist and an essayist. While many americans take for granted that they are American Citizens and they have this freedom, when in another country people would kill to be an American citizen. The least that people could do is respect the flag and the veterans that fought for the flag that represents this country. But these days people have started to kneel during the…

The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic culture that took place between the 1920s and mid-1930s. It was a time of intellectual and social growth for the black community. During this period, Harlem was a cultural hub attracting black artists, musicians, poets, and writers. Among those artists whose works attained recognition was Langston Hughes. His fierce ethnic pride would influence numerous foreign black writers like Jacques Roumain, Nicolás…