Native American writers

The Coming of Age Childhood is a time where children learn about the world around themselves. They see and experience many factors that influence their everyday lives, which help them grow stronger when they become adults. In “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara the characters within the stories learn valuable lesson with help them grow to become better individuals. In “The Lesson” the character of Sugar undergoes a realization

In Leroy Thomas' critique of John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," Thomas draws attention to the physical shape as well as the gender of Elisa. Thomas does that by referring to Elisa as "totally unsexed" (Thomas). What Thomas is referring to is Steinbeck's description of Elisa when he says, "her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume" (Steinbeck). Thomas also describes the satisfaction Elisa feels as a woman merely from her conversation with the tinker. Thomas states, "She has

The idea of American Romanticism originated in the early 19th century. It encompassed the revolutionary spirit America was beginning to embody, and sought to break rigid societal norms of conformity by emphasizing the individuals importance, fueled by emotion as movement, in connecting to the world in which one lived. The movement utilized various facets of art to form an identity, which produced an overwhelming appeal to an American society with contradicting mindsets prevalent in trying to form

Art Dr. Laura Myers Native Artists, Identity Defined and Redefined. Luiseno Native artist James Luna’s performance of, The Artifact Piece (1987) confronts anthropological museums in their post-colonial precepts of the Indian “other”. In the performance of The Artifact Piece, Luna shares with the viewer that he himself is a living human artifact. Bringing into question why institutions as such continue to perpetuate and objectify Native Indigenous people as extinct artifacts,

As I read this story I felt like my inner-voice was developing a Southern Drawl. Faulkner’s writing is extremely eloquent and deliberate. The time period also comes out through the language in his writing referring to African-Americans as Negros and to Northerners as Yankees. It soon becomes quite obvious that Faulkner must have been raised in the same time and place this story takes place. Communities do not only affect the language of the author but they also can provide

Alcoholism Alcohol consumption was initiated on reservations when traders in the nineteenth century started to offer it to oppressed and depressed Native Americans. Natives represent, in fact, the ethnic group with the highest degree of alcohol consumption in the United States. Confinement on reservations after displacement brought for Native Americans identity conflicts and assimilation problems. This situation promoted the abuse of liquor to mitigate the psychological pain inflicted by the dispossession

Native American literature is in its self a very unique way of telling stories. In these types of stories, I found that the stories were much different than the stories of the northern American writers I was used too. What I found was the most interesting about the native American writers that I was reading about is how similar the short stories and poems seemed. Erna Gunther, the author of the Native American Literature article stated, “These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings

all have a story to tell. With all of the rapid changes the county was going through over the course of a century, there was plenty to document and American literature was born. The industrial revolution created an influx of immigration, and that too brought created events to write about. Throughout this paper discussion will focus on what Ethnic American literature is, and

reviving Native American culture and literature, and her reputation stands tall as one of the most prominent contemporary Native American writers. She has integrated a strong Native American color to her works by perfectly mixing diversified genres into varied literary pieces, by connecting the writing closely to nature, and by implementing oral tradition, and storytelling. Her writings reflect a profound understanding of Native American cultural heritage and an intense awareness of Native Americans

Native American and the role as the community is very bold in “Red Convertible” by Louis Erdrich and “Civilize Them with a Stick” by Mary Crow Dog. I realized that they had treated differently in American society. Moreover, the format of the sorties are different “Civilize Them with a Stick” by Mary Crow Dog’s is Autobiographical whereas, in “ Red Convertible” by Louis Erdrich is fiction. Autobiographical is more compelling because it based on actual event. Whereas, fictional stories are more about