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." ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: love and racism. ...
Giovanni's Room told of a white American expatriate and his coming to terms with his homosexuality. ... Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life. ... Walter Meserve writes in The Black American Writer: Poetry and Drama, Vol. 2, Baldwin tries to use theatre as a pulpit for his ideas. ...
The Octoroon, only considered second amongst antebellum melodramas, is a play written by Irish author Dion Boucicaut. The play focuses on the Plantation Terrebonne, the Peyton estate and its residents, namely it's slaves. During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, inspired conversations about th...
In countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, and even North Korea, countries that the U.S. isn't on good terms with, when President Bush makes a speech about stopping these countries from gaining power or going to war with them I am sure many citizens of these countries view his speeches as Hate Speeches. ... The consequences of this action were the suspension of the teacher who allowed her to read the poem and the closing of several school poetry clubs. ...
African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch ...
