Maya Angelou was an award winning poet and writer of our time. Many of us had the opportunity to hear her read and discuss many of her writings through television documentaries and shows. Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928; her birth name was Margurite Johnson. She lived in Harlem, New York and Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Schnall). Angelou was well traveled and worked and lived in Africa for a while as a freelance writer and editor. Angelou married Tosh Angelos in 19 50 and had one
Hemingway is typically discussed under the mantle of modernism and ranks as one of the great American short story writers and novelists, whereas Ernest Gaines is usually discussed under the category of African American and/or Southern literature. It is my purpose to demonstrate how the two writers can be read and taught together, as they are linked by many common themes and stylistic elements. However, their differences are even more instructive in that they allow the reader to compare and contrast the
from Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein and Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The construction and representation of masculine identity in these two works are vastly different. In this essay I will be arguing that Benjamin Franklin’s construction and representation of masculine identity is that of trust and sincerity while Frankenstein’s is rational yet highly emotional. The narrator in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, follows in the traditional autobiographical
Until the beginning of the 20th century there was no formal education available for Dalits. Dalit literature as a genre emerged only in 1970’s through some of the Dalit protest movements in Maharshtra and Andhra Pradesh. Dalit literature is the literature produced by the Dalit consciousness. Human freedom is the inspiration behind it. Dalit literature must be written from the Dalit point of view and with a Dalit vision. The “Dalit view point” calls for writer to internalise the sorrows and sufferings
and life Writing in the light of Barack Obama’ Writings Life writing as a genre, serves the purpose of bringing to the public eye the lives of eminent personalities. The basic truth of life writing is that it deals with truth which ends up bearing the colour of fiction, with the passage of time and the change in perceptions. Retelling of lives, which forms the crux of Life Writing, is a conscious effort. Life Writing involves various forms-Memoirs, Biographies, Diaries, Autobiographies and so forth
However, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein express the ways in which the self is not just a personal creation, but rather influenced and shaped by the one’s relationship to others. Each depiction shows the ways that character is fashioned by external forces. The self, an ever-changing aspect of one’s identity, is a collection of external perceptions that must be learned and practiced by each individual. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography establishes that there is
Famed feminist Gloria Steinem has written some intelligent and thoughtful essays that make up her new book MY LIFE ON THE ROAD. While Steinem's writing is very readable it sometimes tends toward the dry and she has a bit of a condescending tone at times. In an age where we often pay attention to the loudest, most extreme viewpoints and their angry, overt appeals to our most base nature, it was refreshing to read a book that was earnest and un-cynical - while being honest about the flaws in the
Monster: A Book Review The book I selected to read is Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. At first I was extremely excited to read this autobiography and learn about the gang culture. Having lived in Southern California my entire life, I have heard a great deal about the Crips and the Bloods and their rivalry. My perception of the gangs was something completely different from what it actually is. I learned that it is such an organized and strategic group and that the members were
Martin Luther King Jr. They both fought for the civil rights of their people,so they could live a free and equal life. But at the time Maya Angelou joined the fight for civil rights. Maya Angelou spent as much time working for civil rights as she did writing. Malcolm X and Angelou formed
“How did you escape it all: the poverty, the rape at an early age, a broken home, growing up black in the South?” This is a question Maya Angelou is incredibly familiar with, and her response: “My natural response is to say, ‘How the hell do you know I did escape? You don’t know what demons I wrestle with’” (Weller 14). These words of wisdom sing with Angelou’s determined, humorous personality. Not only did Maya have a brilliant personality, she is remembered as a “public intellectual.” She may not