american modernism

Up From Slavery

• describes his experience as a slave

• Education is a key component for Black people

• Belongs to the genre of enslavement narrative

• making present the absence

• writes about slavery in a non political and colliqually way

• Author is Booker T Washington

Of the Sorrow Songs

• The songs which the souls of Black slave spoke to men

• D.U Boise performs a close-reading of the songs

• Songs that express the injustice and opression but also prayers of hope

• a cultural expression shared among slaves

• w.e.b du bois

Angle Island Poetry

• Common themes of regret and allusions to Chinese mythology

• Authors are between two different countries and making sense of the 20th century phenomenon and finding meaning through other stories

• Loss + identity, multiple meanings for multiple audiences

• insisting on one’s humanity within art and literature

  • Reflecting the disconnect of crossing borders, mentally and physically

The Education of Popo

• Bodies of Mexican people are shaped in the impearilist imagination

• contact and conflict between Anglo-Americans and descendants of Mexicans

• Critiquing value judgements

• Language politics

  • Multi-linguism - an author incorporates different languages into pieces of their literature and speaking to multiple audiences

• Interested in critiquing gender or linguistic norms and how they are represented

• Author - Maria Cristina Mena

Hands Sherwood Anderson

• Wing - Communicates with his hands

• Interested in communicative norms and people who’s ways of communities fit outside the norm

• Literature into social elements

• Visceral language