American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie. supplement I.. part 2Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field. |
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Page 51
... racial protest for Commentary with astringent hostility . While complaining of over - simplifica- tion and sentimentality in novels about race , Baldwin noted the centrality of sex in racial conflict . With much oversimplification of ...
... racial protest for Commentary with astringent hostility . While complaining of over - simplifica- tion and sentimentality in novels about race , Baldwin noted the centrality of sex in racial conflict . With much oversimplification of ...
Page 52
... racial segrega- tion in public education , and at the end of the fol- lowing year Martin Luther King launched a bus boycott in Montgomery , Alabama , that brought him to national attention . Throughout the South blacks were being ...
... racial segrega- tion in public education , and at the end of the fol- lowing year Martin Luther King launched a bus boycott in Montgomery , Alabama , that brought him to national attention . Throughout the South blacks were being ...
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... racial situa- tions , the characters often lack full development and plots remain contrived and melodramatic . It is easy to criticize Hughes's short stories as un- even , although his best works , such as " Berry , " " Home , ” “ One ...
... racial situa- tions , the characters often lack full development and plots remain contrived and melodramatic . It is easy to criticize Hughes's short stories as un- even , although his best works , such as " Berry , " " Home , ” “ One ...
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