In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job expressing cool as it applies to him and his ancestors, but in terms of defining it for all humanity, he is incomplete. If one was to use his terms of defining cool for all peoples everywhere (not just on a pur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, he left the United States desiring to come to terms with his sexual uncertainty and leave the hopelessness that many young African American men like himself surrendered to in New York. ... Literary Works James Arthur Baldwin had a lots of published essays and novels. ... Notable Achievements Throughout James Baldwin's life he received numerous awards for his literary works, leadership qualities, and being a preacher. ... While not a marching activist, Baldwin emerged as one of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement for his literary works on race. ...

• Word Count: 925
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Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... 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. ...

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The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch of artistic and literary revivals, is believed to have begun in 1923 with Jean Toomer's novel Cane. ... Countee Cullen's "Incident" is another striking one in terms of how it makes the reader feel. ...

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They maintained literary societies in which they could enjoy and foster their "culture.... The "genteel" had to come to terms with the representatives of the Negro masses who had received a professional education or had become successful in business. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate