Great African American Novelists and poets
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Bumby — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 06:25 PM)
What true admirer of Hurston would forget to mention her equally-groundbreaking work as a folklorist and cultural anthropologist, or that she died impoverished and relatively unknown, or that it was the feminist critics of the 70s that brought her work back into the spotlight?
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer. -
Bumby — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 06:44 PM)
I'm a literature major.
I had to give a lecture on "The Gilded Six Bits" during the Hurston section of 20th Century American Literature.
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer. -
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Bumby — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 06:32 PM)
What can be said of Maya Angelou? Something incredibly vague which requires no knowledge whatsoever of the things she's written.
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer.