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Baldwin's complete artistic control of language, point of view, and theme makes "Sonny's Blues" not only one of his finest personal ... Fonny, an illegitimate child, becomes a sensitive artist (a wood-carver) at odds with society, ...
Baldwin's complete artistic control of language, point of view, and theme makes "Sonny's Blues" not only one of his finest personal ... Fonny, an illegitimate child, becomes a sensitive artist (a wood-carver) at odds with society, ...
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It tells of an artist who visits a Louisiana plantation and becomes fascinated with an Acadian native named Evariste. "The 'Cadian' was rather a picturesque subject in his way," the painter muses, "and a tempting one to an artist ...
It tells of an artist who visits a Louisiana plantation and becomes fascinated with an Acadian native named Evariste. "The 'Cadian' was rather a picturesque subject in his way," the painter muses, "and a tempting one to an artist ...
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Hughes pointed out, however, that it is these people who can provide authentic and almost unlimited folk material for the Negro artist. They are not well-fed or sophisticated, but they know how to be themselves and to enjoy life as it ...
Hughes pointed out, however, that it is these people who can provide authentic and almost unlimited folk material for the Negro artist. They are not well-fed or sophisticated, but they know how to be themselves and to enjoy life as it ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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