Elements of rap can be seen in early African songs such as James Weldon Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing. Through the readings so far in the book African American Literature I have learned that African slaves would tell stories to keep hope of becoming free someday. ...
Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... ... Another author to approve of this novel is David Bradley, who says "Huckleberry Finn must be taught because it is a specific point of intersection between White American Literature and Black American Literature" (Zwick 1). ... Since people of the 1800s frequently used the word "nigger", and because people talked with improper English, I feel that it makes sense for a novel of that day to contain such elements. ...
Its authorship included Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beacher Stowe who dually challenged the legitimacy of slavery in their literature. ... When revealing the darker side to servitude though, she does not necessarily petition to those of authority who can bring about change due to her lack of firsthand knowledge and the additional elements of fiction that skew the integrity of the slave experience. Nevertheless her fictional elements are necessary because she cannot display direct bias against slavery like Douglass can with his personal accounts "instead, she uses it as a tool to pro...
It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... This line is a sort of leitmotiv in slave literature, because of its incisiveness and clearness. ... The first one uses many documents, reports and testimonies produced by the English tribunals in eighteenth century, without consideration to the slaves point of view, or African American literature. ...
During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ... Toomer was angered by Frank's choice of marketing as he thought that by mixing elements to create a story it would work as symbolism of the racial mixtures present in America. ...
