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Born in England,London; moved to the US
Mother=chinese; father= English and was hated by family bc of mixed marriage
Loved Montreal
Lived in NYC; had to sell street goods to support her family
feminist movement
one book with many short stories
experiences with chinese immigrants coming to america |
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Sui Sin Far; chinese women traveled back to China from CA to take care of her husband's parents
already pregnant; had baby while in China
tried to come back to US, but customs took her baby
20 moons: the length of time the custom's officers had her baby
get a lawyer to get their baby back in 5 moons
when reunited with son, he is scared and doesnt remember her |
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Virginia;1873; oldest child
father=real estate in Nebraska
1896: graduated from U of Neb
moved to Pittsburg: editor of "home monthly"
"april twilights" 1903; poems written while she taught high school
wrote about hard working europeans in the Us and respected them
rumored lesbian; lived with a woman from 1908-her death
1922; health declined and suffered
preferred europeans to east coasters
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focuses on immigrant issues;farming lifestyle, health, poverty
strong female characters
pulester for "death comes for the Archbishop"
Realism--Naturalism: pessimistic determintation
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characters had own voices; southern gothic; born 1897 in Oxford,Miss.
grandfather=badass; father=drunk
mother=literary and influence for his works
British Army;trained in Canada
went to New Orleans: magazine writer
went to U of Miss. |
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William Faulkner
begins at Miss Emily Grierson's funeral
didnt pay taxes since 1894
no one entered house for 10 years
horrible smell coming from her house
dates and kills Homer
corpse of Homer rotting in bed with her hair on the pillow near to it |
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1925, Savannah,GA; lived with mother in Milli.GA; had lupus, died prior to age 40. Roman Catholic
went to school in Milli and at U of Iowa
1950:lupus attack; returned to live with mom
most famous for her short stories |
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Flannery O' Connor
main character: Joy Hopewell;protagonist;has wooden leg due to hunting accident
Hulga tries to seduce bible salesman (trick him)
he tricks her and steals her leg
lesson about injustice |
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| A Good Man is Hard to Find |
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| the book that Flannery O' Connor wrote; has the Good Country People story in it. |
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poor rural family; shot with BB gun in eye when she was younger; attended Spelman college and Sarach Lawrence College.
From Eatonton,GA
taught at Jackson State College in Miss
worked against segregation in the civil rights movement
had an abortion; thought about suicide
heard MLK's "I have a dream" |
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Alice Walker; 2 daughters: Maggie and Dee.
Maggie is scarred from house fire
Dee and Maggie fight over quilts
Dee changed her name
Dee says maggie will not appreciate the quilts |
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born 1894 in Washington,DC; never knew his father, grew up with grandparents;
described blacks through modernurban style
superintendent of small black school in GA
"Cane" longest peice; main work |
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Jean Toomer
Part 1: talks about rural blacks
Part 2: talks about urban blacks corrupted by materialism
Part 3: talks abut himself trying to teach in the rural south |
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Jane Toomer; setting: GA; describes her beauty; Fern's eyes were beautiful;
would fool men into thinking she was easy
every man wanted to be with her, but she turned them all away
blacks loved her, whites didnt
she went for a walk with him and she seizured and fainted
he went back north and saw her beauty in the train window as he left |
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born in Jacarta, Indonesia
father=political prisoiner, 1959 his whole family fled to america
lee's stories have to do with his dad
taught at various universities
great grandfather was first president of the Republic of China
beauty in words |
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| Li Young Lee; teacher doesnt see that he is connecting two words together; father is blind but can still visualize things through memory |
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1891 Notasulga,Alabama; black and closely related with Harlem Renaissance
influenced: Alice Walker,Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison
encountered no white people in her town
attended Harvard U in DC
stories from Eastonville (all negro town) impressed people
1927 Graduated from Barnard
Osgood Mason supported her when she ran out of money in return for controlling her publishing
ended up working in FL as a maid bc the timing wasnt right for black novels |
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| How it feels to be Colored Me |
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Zora Neale Hurston; northerners warmer when they traveled through town; sent to boarding school at 13 in Jacksonville 'became colored' there; proud to be colored:wasnt offended
god= "the bag stuffer" |
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Zora Neale Hurston; Joe and Missy May happily married; rich Chicago negro moved into town and owned an ice cream shop
missy cheated on joe with chicago man; she said it was in order for her to get money to make joe feel better about himself
the "gold" was gilded and fake
missy had a child 6 months later; he forgave her and moved on after he knew it was his baby |
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story about exploitation and misunderstanding btw whites and indians
ayah signed a paper that she misunderstood; was mad at her husband bc he taught her to sign her name;
jimmy: her son that died in WW2 in helicopter crash |
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Vilna,Lithuania 1860; emigratted to Us in 1882
fluent in english and yiddish
editor for socialist and labor movements
"forward" magazine
wanted to preach marxist doctrine
jewish
teacher and intellectual
founder of the most successful paper of immigrants
helped immigrants adapt |
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Leizer Lipman owned small sweatshop
Meyer tells girl to stop singing
Heyman defends girl and told her to keep singing
David looked at the finisher girl and she looks back
david is 2 days behind in his work
david wants to kiss Beile
Beile doesnt know if she loves Hayman
Heyman is cheap
owner brings 2 friends to shop
guests are assholes
Heyman goes to visit Beile but finds out that she is already set to marry David |
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Sylvia Plath; reveals relationship with her dad;impact of her dad's death; feels abandoned; says she killed the father in the poem and the man she modeled after him (her husband)
she is scared of her dad as if she is a jew and he is a nazi
tried to kill herself to be reunited |
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| Sylvia Plath; angry and wants revenge; resurrection is occuring theme; previous suicide attempts; thinks its a miracle that she is still alive; says she will eat the doctors so that they cant bring her back to life; tries suicide every 10 years; first accident at age 10 |
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committed suicide in London 1963
brokedown and attempted suicide between junior and senior year of college
Cambridge university where she married Ted Hughes
marriage broke summer of 62
born in 32 in mass.
perfect girl
first poem at age 8
1950 went to smith college on scholarship
killed herself with cooking gas at age 30
attempts suicide once every 10 years |
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Langston Hughes; talks about struggles that blacks went through
unequal treatment
looks to an equal future
when tomorrow comes, i will sit at the same table as the white folk
whites will be ashamed of their actions against the blacks in the future |
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most pop writer of Harlem Renaissance
wanted to capture black tradition and culture
Joplin missouri 1902;
lived with gma in kansas
entered columbia university but left a year in
fbi thought of him as a security risk bc of his radicalism until 1959
wrote to jazz rythum |
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Indian born in 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reserve in Wellpoint, Wa
BA in american studies at Washington State U
Hemingway foundation/PEN award
alcoholic as young adult
national politics to domestic crisis on his works |
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Sherman Alexie; Chocolate Thunder=vibrator; personifies grief "mr.Grief"
everything has more than one meeting; hung chocolate thunder over the crib because it saved his babie's life |
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Salinas,CA 1902
Stanford but never graduated
1925 NYC but failed at writing
talked about economic failures/rural labor
won nobel prize in literature in 1962
works are set in CA
worked at mills and farms; he appreciated farm workers |
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John Steinbeck; grandfather on the way to Jody's house
grandfather retells story over and over again
grandfather heard carl talking shit about him and got offended |
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1948 Alberquerque,NM
raised in Old Laguna, indians pop
religion has not changed there, still very indian traditional
great grandfather was white
mixed btw indian and white girl
horse by age 8, rifle by age 13
went to U NM and got a BA and then went to law school but left to be a writer and teacher |
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Willa Cather; written shortly after fathers death; criticizes materialism of 1920s; rosicky is immigrant from czech.
65 and owns a farm in Neb
has chest pain while working in the barn
dies at breakfast next day; doctor said he had full life
lived in london but struggled in poverty as a tailor
new york at age 20
hated big cities, moved to NEB |
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Maxine Hong Kingston; feminist; aunt that killed herself in the family well because she got pregnant while her husband was in america
aunt gave birth in the pigstye
aunt was disgrace to family
story as cautionary tale for kingston
tries to defend her aunt
scrictness of chinese culture on women
aunt now a ghost, hungry in the afterlife |
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