Albert King once stated: "The Blues its twelve-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization and trouble, which are always present, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls." ... Toni Morrison, as in a jazz band, provides the "double bass" of the novel through the omnipresent narrator, keeping a continuous rhythm and providing effective continuity throughout the novel. ... Comparatively, at the climax of the novel, during Beloved's complete domination of Sethe, the community si...

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The novel deftly talks about certain social issues predominantly reigning during those times. ... The novel has the title "Invisible Man" for the exact same purpose in which it represents. ... (p.3) All throughout the novel, it is very interesting to note that Ellison has never mentioned the protagonist's name, but instead the readers are guided by the narrative and informed that he is given a new name as the plot develops, and intriguingly, the protagonist adapts to each of the name that was given to him. ... At the end of the novel, it states: Who knows but that, on the lower ...

• Word Count: 1723
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

This day was portray in one of his essays called, "Notes of a Native Son". ... Literary Works James Arthur Baldwin had a lots of published essays and novels. ... He had several novels one title Another Country and, one of his most famous writings, Go Tell It on the Mountain. ... Baldwin's fifth novel was published in 1974, If Beale Street could talk. ... Delving into his own life, he provided a look at the black experience in America through such works as Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name were best sellers. ...

• Word Count: 925
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• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin has become one of the most famous black writers of all time. His novels and short stories have been a wake up call for people. The reader can see the trials and tribulations that the black man went through in his generation. Although he wrote fictional storie...

• Word Count: 1654
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• Grade Level: High School

Until that time, Baldwin had been working only on an unpublished draft of a novel, but in 1946 he published his first essay in the Nation. ... It was the nonfiction books - Notes of a Nation Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963) - "that secured his reputation as an important American writer and social critic" (http://www.africana.com, pg. 1). ... Notes of a Native Son marked the formal entry of Baldwin into the literary tradition of the personal essay. ... Baldwin's 1949 essay Everybody's Protest Novel and 1951 essay Many Thousands Gone, however, b...

• Word Count: 2618
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• Grade Level: High School

When reading the novel, you meet and interact with many of the characters. ... And many other characters who made this novel what it was. ... Morrison tells this novel in circular narration. ... The 2nd is the novels central narrator Claudia McTeer. ... There are many different themes that Morrison examines and explores in this novel. ...

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This is contrary to life as it relates to James Baldwin essay "Notes of a Native Son"and John Edgar Wideman collection of Homewood stories "Our Time." ... Through his novels and essays, he voiced his discontent on social injustices: James Edgar Wideman earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Professor at the University of Massachusetts, he won the PEM/Faulkner Award. ... I do take note that African American Men have to deal with many dilemmas, social injustice, hatred, and discontent. ...

• Word Count: 861
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

These works were Followed by the novels: One House Behind The Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, and The Colonel's Dream. ... Chesnutt notes that "Douglass was not the ideal slave garnered by the meek and lowly spirit of Uncle Tom" and his insubordinate attitude toward Thomas Auld got him into Covey's hands. ... Some of these are new archival materials, but the editor here was able to locate most of them and make use of the material found in the end notes following each chapter. ...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Hart stated, "He had a most dramatic meeting with his literary idol of the time, Vachel Lindesayhe had a chat with Lindsay and his wife, and was given a gift of Amy Lowell's John Keats, along with a note directing him to study the New Poetry" (Hart 617). ... According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novels and promoting the arts among black peopleHis two novels were written during the 1920s, and his greatest effort to help black writers and artists came during that decade, tooWhite's efforts on behalf of ...

• Word Count: 1512
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. ... Hughes wrote novels, stories, poems, and plays about Negro life. ... Critics take note that Langston remained unvarying in his spotlight on the problems of racism and the failure of African Americans to recognize the American Dream. ...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It is interesting to note as well, that it is the dietician who causes Joe to be taken out of the orphanage, the only home he has even known, by telling the matron of the orphanage of Joe's mixed heritage. ... She is perhaps the only person in the novel that he is truly able to communicate with, although at this point he is still a young man. ... Her desire for Joe to deny his heritage will contrast starkly later in the novel with Joanna Burden's need for Joe to claim his Black blood. ...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novel traces Emma Lou's life from city to city as she searches for a group of "the right sort of people" who will accept her although "she is black, too black" (109). ... The teachers send her a note in an attempt to help Emma Lou avoid the gossip and criticism behind her back. ... This idea is clearly represented at the end of the novel when Emma Lou returns to the man she thinks she loves and believes will love her in return. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Parts one and three take place in the deep south before and after World War 1, whilst part two of the novel takes place in the north during the war. ... Cane is a fibrous and dense material to dissect just like Toomer's theorizing of race, Toomer's obsession with the south only helps illuminate the title of the novel. ...

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On a positive note, Richard did eventually get to attend school, which didn't come till later on in Frederick's behalf. Richard's grandmother hindered his ability to learn because she thought that reading novels was a sin and that the only reading he should have been doing was in the bible. ...

• Word Count: 1141
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. In the PreFace to Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amieri showed his sense of despair, alienation, and self - depreciation. ... During this transitional point in his life he wrote two books of serious fiction " The System of Dante's Hell", a novel, and "Tale", a collection of short stories. ...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... The narrator notes that, "They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all these things because the town bowed down" (80). ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

• Word Count: 2542
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• Grade Level: High School

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Song of Solomon CHARACTERS: Macon "Milkman" Dead - the protagonist of the novel. ... He has written a note and sent it around to all the people in the community, but most of them didn't get it. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School