Comedy: American Style (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson,Jessie Fauset

A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace)

This half artwork ebook, half biography, and half trip advisor bargains perception into how landscapes and townscapes stimulated John Steinbeck's inventive procedure and the way, in flip, his legacy has inspired glossy California. quite a few varieties of readers will savour the knowledge during this guide—literary pilgrims will study extra in regards to the kingdom featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at an identical constructions that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will get pleasure from the engrossing standpoint on everyday life in early and mid 20th-century California.

Ziele und Hintergrund Claude McKays primitivistischer Strategie in 'Home to Harlem': Die Probleme eines jungen afroamerikanischen Autors (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, observe: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (John-F. -Kennedy-Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Claude McKay, eine der wichtigsten literarischen Figuren der Harlem Renaissance, kann guy keiner politischen Strömung eindeutig zuordnen.

Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Seminar paper from the yr 2015 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), path: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to financial Independence, language: English, summary: In my paper i want to check how Gilman’s nineteenth century brief tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the ability politics of marriage and the scientific attitudes in the direction of ladies within the 19th-century U.

"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century)

"Perhaps it truly is no accident that the 19th century—the century whilst, it's been stated, sexuality as such (and a number of taxonomized sexual identities) have been invented—is the interval while American brief tales have been invented, and once they have been the queerest. "—Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionA guy in small-town the USA wears the garments of his spouse and sisters; chuffed finally that he has "a ideal swimsuit of clothes applicable for my sex," he commits suicide, asking merely that he be buried dressed as a lady.