Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... The protagonists, for example, were two dissimilar male friends: Rufus Scott and Daniel Vivaldo Moore. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... An example of his ornate writing would be the subsequent sentence: "The nature, the ferocity, ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A brief introduction to the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance is a literary movement also known as "New Negro Movement" or "Negro Renaissance". The literary roots can be traced by writers like Charles W. ... Sterling Brown, a participant of the Renaissance, even denied the Renaissance being a literary movement. ... These older men were for example, W. ... Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... This segment is just an example of the prejudice that blacks and minorities continued to experience even when they were supposedly "included" in the work force. ... Alice illustrates this, "You mustn't think in terms of getting even with them [white people], you must accept whatever they do for you and try to prove yourself worthy to be entrusted with more." ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is an example of selective processing, which Angelou referred to with the first two lines of the poem. ... The first stanza dealt with the attitudes to African-Americans from a general historical perspective over the course of many centuries (and the literary recordings of history that came with it). ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School