Until that time, Baldwin had been working only on an unpublished draft of a novel, but in 1946 he published his first essay in the Nation.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...

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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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In an effort to limit the unencumbered rambling, I am going to focus on Twain's response to the racial issues at the heart of his American historical context, primarily through an interpretation of the novel (if it may be characterized as such) Pudd'nhead Wilson with reference to other works by Twain we have discussed in this course and multiple critical essays which have been pored over, albeit with less than completely gratifying results. ... Gerber in "Pudd'nhead Wilson as Fabulation,"" Mark Twain was not really a novelist - he was more of a "new journalist,"" who spun yarn...

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