ENC1143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Roaring Twenties, Net., White Supremacy
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Recap:
- Early 19th century: Romanticism (Shelley)
- Late 19th century: Realism (Tolstoy)
- Early 20th century: Modernism (Faulkner)
- Agai, the te Modeis is poleati eause it just efes to o.
o Now = this moment? This week? This year? Who knows.
o Very non-descript but it is a legitimate literary movement and school of thought.
- Modernism
o Should be called Anti-Modernism in the way that the members often criticized the
modern world.
Belieed if people didt fid e alues to eplae the oid Gods role
left), modern society would be left in a hyper industrial world where war
can break out for no good reason.
o Motto: Make it new.
Even now, we value original and unique ideas.
Associated with the avant-garde (taken from a militant term; referred to
the people on the front lines)
Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises has characters based on real people, including Hemingway himself.
- Jake is the eades ido to Euope, akig hi a iside.
o This would have been valuable to Americans because most of them just stayed in
the U.S. and probably wondered what life was like in Europe.
Faulkner
- An accomplished author; won 2 Pulitzer Prizes and one Nobel Prize.
- Style is alinear.
o The characters are constantly plagued by their pasts.
- Content: Criticism of the South (despite his love for his roots) and its obsession with its
past.
- Uses Compson family to depict the racism, sexism, etc. that is perpetuated by Southern
families that the South cannot move past.
- In The Sound and the Fury, Bejis iailit to diffeetiate between Caddy and a golf
add is eiiset of Wittesteis ok that states ods hae o eaig he
taken out of context).
- Fathe aied Jaso o his ak -> indicative of how racism/sexism/ways of thinking
continues because children often carr o hat thee ee thought.
o Jason becomes the same sexist and racist man his father was.
o The fat thei aes ae the sae is aothe aspet that foeshadoed Jaso J.s
development.
- Quetis silee is hi puttig togethe the eets ad Nas ievitable death.
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- His lie aout Who ill do ou ashig o, fathe? that Queti at see a old
beyond what affects him—Na is aout to die ut hes oied aout ho ill ash his
clothes and the dishes.
o Faulkes itiue that uges eades to see a world beyond your own life and
what will impact your own life.
Langston Hughes
- Modeiss otto ake it e ad the Hale ‘eaissae is a suoeet ithi
it that created it a collective identity.
o A variety of African-American people of different milieu are gathered into a
collective identity.
o Ous i a ua eioet, hih is uial. Those i ual aeas ouldt
easily collaborate or gather for reasons like that.
o Gave rise to jazz music. Harlem Renaissance Jazz is music that is spontaneous and
organic.
We a eate geat usi ithout the tehialities of these lassial
sogs.
Never hear the same song twice, further reinforcing the motto of
Modernism.
o The new forms created in the Harlem Renaissance becomes such a huge part of
African-American identity because what was established within society was clearly
against people of color.
- Hughes called his work spontaneous poetry/verse. He would perform his poetry.
o He, its the fist feestle appe.
- The Nego “peaks of ‘ies
o Contains no words typically associated with African-Americans (especially in terms
of appearance), other than the geographical allusions.
Establishes the deep pride in his heritage and its physical roots.
- I, Too
o too – I a hee as ell. Dot foget aout e.
o the sees alost aout a putuatio; alost like a theat saig just ou
ait.
Also iialis siila to Whitas tet.
o Growing animosity. His response to combat white supremacy and to establish the
African-American presence.
- A Dea Defeed
o Alludes to the American Dream
Gadualis ioles aitig fo ou tu, dot o, oull get ou
hae.
- Economic BG Info:
o Itea s ad s: ‘oaig Teties ad the the Geat Depessio.
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o Roaring for rich white people, but for everyone else, not so much.
o 99: stok aket ashes ail eause it ast egulated ell at all laissez-
faire).
o “tok akets dietio is elated oe to pshologial deisios.
Many people who had people in the market took it out because they were
fearful (as opposed to greedy, which would boost the stock market
gaphs dietio.
Keynes recognizes these boom and bust tendencies; figures out to create
a floo just i ase of a stok akets pluge that ould eate a stiulus,
which would come from the government, as some sort of net.
This auses det hih is ot eil util ou igoe it o dot allo fo it to
be paid off).
So the government began to tax to make up for the debt when the stock
markets gets to a big enough number.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Not a fan of Keynes.
- Feuetl etioed as Aeias geatest pesidet.
o Won four elections with 75% voting for him.
- Utilized mass media very well.
o Using the radio gave the citizens a sense of being a part of something so much
bigger than themselves.
Steinbeck
- Focused on micro-topics and the personal. The individual vs the group.
- Ca e osideed Aeias Natioal Epi, as it eoles aoud suh a ide age of
people on American soil.
- Motgage etolog: death otat
- Focused on people who come from the same rural background.
- Desperate times, desperate measures.
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