Black literature

The historical background of a writer helps glean on information about that person’s unconscious and subconscious processes that become apparent within an author’s literature. As the author develops their thoughts throughout a novel attempting to paint a clearer picture of their purpose, their own persona becomes a part of the literature. Psychoanalytic theory attempts to further this claim by taking information from one’s childhood, inner taboo thoughts and hidden motivations, and synthesizing them

Summary Biography Poet and writer Nikki Giovanni was born on June 7, 1943. In Knoxville, Tennessee. She is a prominent poet and writer who established Cincinnati’s first Black Arts Festivals in 1967. She graduated with honors from Fisk University in 1967. Giovanni published her first book of poems, “Black Feeling,” “Black Talk” in 1968. She achieved a lot in her writing life. She established herself as a potential poet by winning many awards including a woman of the year from “Ladies Home Journal”

on segregation and racism growing up and growing up in the South. Mildred stories came from family experience’s. She gave good information on how things were growing up in that type of environment. Therefore, her books were great for the world of literature and people who were passionate about Racism and African American rights. Taylor earned her rights as a great author. Mildred Taylor was born September 13, 1943 born in Jackson Mississippi. Her father is Wilbert Lee and her mother is Deletha

the test of time, its availability and impact on life as well as the ability to gain understanding of the era in which the book is written, will be identified in the three preselected works in order to determine whether these can be considered as literature. Firstly, the novel ‘Disgrace’ is evaluated according to the three literary qualities. The novel ‘Disgrace’ by J.M. Coetzee is written in 1999. This means that the most important quality, the test of time, is not yet valid for ‘Disgrace’. The novel

Blake, William. “Holy Thursday.” The Longman Anthology British Literature. Fourth Edition. Vol 2A. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. Pearson Education, Inc., 2010. 175-176. Blake William. “The Chimney Sweeper.” The Longman Anthology British Literature. Fourth Edition. Vol 2A. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. Pearson Education, Inc., 2010. 168-169. Blake, William. “The Little Black Boy.” The Longman Anthology British Literature. Fourth Edition. Vol 2A. Susan Wolfson an

“Lord of the Flies” was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1983. It has received positive and optimistic comments from The Times, the giving positive feedback to the renowned piece of literature and the author. The author of this award winning novel, William Golding, was also known for many of his other highly favoured books. For example, “The Spire” and “The Inheritors”. William Golding was not only an author, he has also served in the Royal Navy in World War two. Though

Symbolism is a very important part in literature. Symbolism adds to a literary work in many ways. It helps readers get more involved in the story rather than just read it and not be involved in it. It also helps the readers get an idea of what the author wants them to get out of the story that they are reading. Symbolism is defined as the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. There are many different works of literature that use symbolism and add to that literary work. “Symbolism is a term

Christina Gao P.2 Francine Prose Argument Literature is studied throughout most grades, from high school to college. Teachers have different ways of exposing their students to the curriculum. Literature should be used as a way for students to be able to personalize and create connections with the piece of work. Stories, whether fiction or nonfiction, can teach us values about ourselves. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is an average fourteen-year-old. He lives in a dangerous area of the city where

Explication of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 This sonnet dramatizes the conflict between appearance and reality, specifically drawing attention to the excessive use of romantic cliches in literature during the elizabethan era. William Shakespeare uses similes and metaphor to compare the speaker’s mistress to that of unpleasant and insulting attributes. In doing this, Shakespeare makes a joke out of the traditional conventions of love poetry at the time and their unrealistic nature when describing

story that is short and leaves a message through literary devices. Literary devices enhance literature because they are the key to understanding the fiction unit of literature. Through literary devices the reader can recognize the moral of the story and also understand why the author chose to write the story. In this paper I will be using three different literary devices that truly define each literature fiction story such as theme, symbolism and verbal irony.