PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spike Lee, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jonathan Safran Foer
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Vo introduction to american literary studies: ethnic voices. The ethnic voices literature runs mostly parallel to the postmodern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. This kind is mostly untouched; only in the last few decades has literary criticism paid attention to ethnic voices within the united states. American, latinas and latinos, asian-american, and native americans have been have been grouped as separate literature traditions a development of ghettoizing literature that is not unproblematic. Both of them wrote novels about male stories of initiation, namely wright the novel native. Son and baldwin the novel go tell it on the mountain. Her epistolary novel the color purple about an abused 14-year-old black girl in the south of the 1930s was groundbreaking. This kind of literature, in comparison to the male stories of initiation, emphasizes female protagonists and their concerns. The novels of the nobel prize-winner contributed widely to the status of the african-
