Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. ... Walker expresses independence as found in the creative spirit, and Marshall finds it through the spoken word. ... Walker identifies with this potential and she expresses their creativity and culture through her own writing. ... Walker defines the creative spirit as an expression of the black wom...

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• Grade Level: High School

Walker's argument is that African American women all have these beautiful unique creative abilities, but because of the ethnicity they were born to they are not often seen. ... Baldwin's and Walker's styles of writing help to contribute to the diversity in their writings. ... Coincidentally and now similarly Baldwin and Walker both base their writing around the same sex parent. ... Baldwin uses a good amount of historical evidence in his writing. ... I found this interesting because in Baldwin's writing he mentions Louis Armstrong. ...

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Gaines majored in English and minored in Social Studies and also creative writing. ... He was only black in writing class. He received an Associate of Arts and Journalism which he did receive a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. ... Gaines had many goals for his writing and characters in his stories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Later on in her writing career, her areas of writing spread to politics and children's books, allowing a greater audience to relate to what she had to say. ... Her writing hit and influenced the lives of many people. ... As times changed, Nikki changed in her areas of writing. ... Her life as a singly mother also affected her writing. ... She teaches creative writing courses at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. ...

• Word Count: 1670
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• Grade Level: High School

Title: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Author: Ernest J. Gaines Year and place published: 1971, New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, and Auckland. Number of pages: 259 Type of Book: Fictional Autobiography Biography of Author: Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River...

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One distinctive mark of the great writing of the Harlem Renaissance includes the development of a creative voice that explains both Black history and the pain endured. ... His writing consistently exhibits a voice that embraces the African-American experience through symbolism in an act of glorification rather than shame. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The black artists and writers started to be creative and reflect from their culture into their work. ... A lot of his writing was about the tradition and culture in African life. ... During the Harlem Renaissance past writing or writing done about a persons history became popular because it was real. ... Western influence could have value on writing but only where it is needed. ... Black literature has a different feeling than any other writing. ...

• Word Count: 2368
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• Grade Level: High School

He began writing after he gradated from high school because he could not afford to go to college. ... As his first writing made a little impression on people, his second collection flew off. ... I think in this poem Dunbar feels this way and is writing about his own life and other people's lives. ... Dunbar preferred writing in Standard English; his dialect poems are used more for humorous purposes than meaning (Tuner 110). ... As you see in "We Wear Masks" Dunbar uses end rhyme, such as " We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes", but in "Sympa...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Mexico, Langston visited is multi-racial father who didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing. ... The world lost one of the most creative and respected poets on May 22, 1967. ...

• Word Count: 970
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Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... Eventually he traveled through Italy, Holland, Spain, and France, writing all the while. ... Hughes continued writing through the 190s and the 1940s, speaking for the poor and homeless black people who suffered during the Great Depression. ...

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While there he nurtured his writing skills by having a large involvement in the school newspaper. ... He kept journal to keep track of his thoughts and practice his writing skills. ... Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benston, published in Boundary 2: "I was really writing defensively. ... And saw the revolution that was going down there and the many intellectuals who where making stride trough their writing to show their feelings about "Cuba Libre." ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black litera...

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Both of these authors creatively use disagreements about abortion to reveal some saddening truths about our society. ... Hemingway manages to further eliminate the morality issue by writing an argument in which the couple is not at all concerned about the moral consequences of the procedure but is instead worried about the effect it will have on their relationship. ... Through his creative portrayal of characters Hemingway points out the damaging way men tend to treat women which he also drives home through the use of symbolism. ... In fact his writing is similar to Hemingway in the sense t...

• Word Count: 2067
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She explains that Paris was a city "which they felt would provide creative stimuli due both the cities' intrinsic characters and to their famous residents" (72). ... Langston Hughes, himself, strived to use double consciousness in his writing, though other artists, such as Countee Cullen, criticized him for it. ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African Americans almost felt the need to censor their creative minds because of this. ... According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critiques Western phallocentrism for refusing raced and gendered differences....

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This paper argues that Mama made the right decision in, "Everyday Use," by Alice Walker. When Mama gave the quilts to Maggie and did not let Dee take them away to hang them on her wall like in a museum to show off her perceived roots, to showcase her heritage. Walker's short story raises question...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... It seems that through writing Cane, Toomer was trying to grapple with his own racial identity 'set out to redefine already received stereotypes [surrounding] race'.10 Elizabeth Alexander in her novel Crave Radiance dedicated a poem to Toomer. Written in what is meant to be Toomers poetic voice, it is a summation of what Alexander thought Toomer's creative discourse was tryi...

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And I think the creativity of writing a poem, story or musical comes exactly from this state of mind. To invent something new or just the feeling of being part of something special makes the lives of people like Aaron Douglas or Langston Hughes so interesting and creative. ... And for this reason they chose a very easy understanding writing and direct style. ...

• Word Count: 4309
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• Grade Level: High School

What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate