Jewish Americans have produced some of the most imaginative, provocative, and widely read literary works of the twentieth century. These works reflect the hopes and dreams of Jewish Americans, as well as their challenges and troubles. These works help students understand the cultural and historical events central to Jewish Americans in the twentieth century. This book gives an introduction to ten masterpieces of Jewish American literature.
This two-volume set consists of entries related to literature by and about African American women, with a focus on feminist and womanist approaches by writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Meant to contribute to the ongoing transformation of the American literary canon, the encyclopedia includes 400 entries appropriate for scholars, high school and college students, and general readers. A sampling of writers: Phyllis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Suzan Lori Parks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Mae Cowdery, and Kate Drumgoold.
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Get ready for the dialogues by learning the following idiomatic expressions and their equivalents in standard English. The course has 21 lessons performed by American speakers.
Toni Morrison and Motherhood, by Andrea O'Reilly, provides a critical reading of motherhood and mothering complexly depicted in Morrison's novels from The Bluest Eye to Paradise with an epilog referring to the latest novel, Love. The author closely scrutinizes Morrison's texts, essays, and interviews as well as other critiques of Morrison and feminism to theorize African American women's everyday experiences and practices, which have been largely neglected by white feminists.
Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 150 years.
