Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, Baldwin felt isolated and retreated into the world of literature. ... He argues that the lives and futures of whites and African Americans are inextricably intertwined. He asserts the independence of African Americans and the possible necessity of violence against whites. ... Baldwin seemed offended by the possibility that an African-American would even want to become president of a country. ... "Baldwin plays an important role in a canon of gay literature" (Thorsson 617). ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
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Behn's influence extends far beyond being just a writer of her time period; rather, she left a mark as a pillar of English literature. ... It is believed that during this time, Behn gathered the inspiration and resources necessary to write Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave, which is supposedly the true story of an African prince who is enslaved and brought to Surinam. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Since the British could not enslave their own...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many argue that "Beloved" is one of the greatest works of literature from the past 25 years, while others argue that it should be removed from the reading lists and replaced with a more valuable piece of literature such as Shakespeare, F. ... Her background could not have prompted her to write such a story, but the fact that she is an African American woman prompted her instead. ... In the forward of "Beloved," she explains that she is writing this book as an extremely angry African American woman. Throughout the entirety of the novel, her opinion of slavery and the way that the African Americ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For the purposes of this essay I will be exploring the question of whether or not the formalities of literature have to be expunged so that adaptations can translate convincingly to cinema or can we see a much more fruitful relationship between these two texts, and one in which can grant Woolf a degree of prescience with which she is rarely credited. ... The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a M...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the age of 26, he produced The Sun Also Rises to achieve his own position in American literature. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ... Also, it takes a rather important position in American literature. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships bet...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate