Zora Neale Hurston Accomplishments

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman and ended up making her famous. She was now a star internationally. Afterwards, Angelou continued to redefine what could and couldn 't be done by people. She wrote the drama Georgia, Georgia in 1972—making her the first African-American woman to have her screenplay produced— and continued, ended up earning herself a Tony Award nomination for her role in Look Away and an Emmy award nomination for her work on Roots. These were only some of her

She wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969 which made history being the first nonfiction best-seller by and African-American woman. She became an even bigger star after her success with this book. She kept building up her life from this point on showing that woman are capable and everyone should be treated equal. She continued to write autobiographies and also published many different

Paradise (1997) Love (2003) A Mercy (2008)Home (2012) .Through her novels, Toni Morrison traced the plight of black people who have struggled the inferior social and economic status in a conspicuous culture. Morrison lodges a stern denunciation against the overriding society for its unfair tyranny of African-Americans. Blacks’ subjugated culture is made noticeable by her literary representation. She has given a voice to the black minority. As an African-American female writer, her writings are profuse in rank about black culture.

Zora Neale Hurston’s book, “The Gilded Six-Bits” is an important piece of literature due to its impact on the world during the Harlem Renaissance era. It is considered a brilliant piece of modernist literature due to Hurston staying true to her background and roots as a black woman from the south, in which segregation was still a huge issue. The reason why it is considered a piece of modernist literature is because she wasn’t afraid to write in the black vernacular which was considered uneducated as blacks were progressing in arts, literature, and the music was alive. The story is filled with many different themes and issues that people can relate to such as money, deceit, and for people who have a big heart forgiveness and reconciliation.

Black women have been undergoing class, race, social oppression and found voiceless against the odds of the society. This paper aims at bringing out the trials and troubles faced by women characters in the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Women urge to own a self identity. This search for self is not an easy task especially when it comes to a Black Women. It axiomatically becomes a great matter of struggle.

Maya Angelou has written many poems that have been impactful to not only women and African Americans, but to all people. Her poems and books are an inspiration to everyone. Sangeetha perfectly sums up this poem specifically by saying, "Maya Angelou has combined several poetic devices in the poem 'Still I Rise ' to paint a vivid picture of endurance, hope, and strength" (Sangeetha). Although Maya Angelou 's most famous poems were written years ago, they continue to be a reminder to be confident in all situations. Also the poems serve as a reminder of history and of the

Although she was unhappy no one in her family knew she wanted to leave until she was already gone. In a letter she was writing to her family Marilyn said, “I have kept all these feelings inside me for a long time”. This inward questioning about whether she should stay at home and become the perfect housewife, or if she should chase her dream of becoming a doctor is what defines Marilyn as a character. She has all of these aspirations however, due to the social norms around her she is forced to choose between two separate lives. This decision and specifically the letter relates back to the title where it hints at secrets kept by characters in the novel.

Fighting the Hate of Beauty Toni Morrison is an author who loves to write about black experiences. She published her first book in 1970 were racism was still a big topic. In her novel she like to give people an idea of what the daily struggle it is to be an African American. Morrison is one of the best authors that portrays a struggle in society because she is never scared to write the truth. Some of Morrison works are very vivid to really illustrate the whole picture she paints through the novel.

At this point, many people would have given up, but Anu did not. When Anu was not learning many new things in the classroom she would be studying long nights at the local library. She also did not have many people to help her on the long nights to motivate her. But Anu bravely decided that she had to persevere through these hardships. Anu also had to raise two children and at home and had to go to the library at night to study.

Maya Angelou writes about a more literal oppression, as an African American woman of the time period, and her perseverance. Both poems make ample use of repetition in the endings of their stanzas. However, the contrast between the repeated lines is what makes these two poems most different. “One Art” repeats the phrase, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,”

While she was a junior in high school her father was diagnosed with cancer (encyclopedia of world biography). To help deal with her father 's diagnosis she wrote the book the outsiders. Not much else is known about her personal life because she chooses not to make it public. Presently she is still writing and living in tulsa with her husband David Inhofe. Her next book was Rumble fish which was published in 1975 it was the shortest novel she had published and it received a lot of contrasting opinions.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a major and powerful young writer during the New Negro Arts Movement. She authored Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), a novel that chronicles the life of a mixed black woman as she persists through various hardships ranging from unhealthy marriages to coping with murder. It is important to assess the prospective reactions that major writers from each side of the frame of the New Negro Arts Movement may have had so as to further analyze the impact and implications of each perspective on black art, specifically that of a black woman. One may reflect upon the various themes and colors of Their Eyes Were Watching God in order to assess what various people, specifically Dr. W. E.