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Literary themes for students, examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes, Anne Marie Hacht, editor

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Literary themes for students, examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes, Anne Marie Hacht, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Literary themes for students

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

405591006

Responsibility statement

Anne Marie Hacht, editor

Series statement

Literary themes for studentsGale eBooks

Sub title

examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes

Summary

Works included represent a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British and world literature. The discussion goes well beyond race, religion, and gender into ethnicity, social status, mental and physical health, and personal beliefs and behaviors

Table Of Contents

Race and predjudice in American literature -- Race and predjudice in British literature -- Race and predjudice in World literature -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- Angels in America / Tony Kushner -- The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Alex Haley and Malcolm X -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Blacks / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bury my heart at wounded knee: an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- "Everything that rises must converge" / Flannery O'Connor -- Farewell to Manzanar / James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- "A good day" / Primo Levi -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- "King of the bingo game" / Ralph Ellison -- The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Native son / Richard Wright -- "The Negro speaks of rivers" / Langston Hughes -- Nisei daughter / Monica Sone -- A passage to India / E.M. Forester -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- "What you pawn I will redeem" / Sherman Alexie -- Class and caste -- Disabilities, illness, and social stigma -- Ethnic cleansing, genocide, and exile -- Ethnicity -- Gender -- Religion -- Segregation -- Sexual orientation -- Slavery

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