In the latter half of the 20th century, the world was introduced to the formidable talent of Toni Morrison, whose novels laid bare the complexities of race, identity, and power in the U.S. With works like Beloved and The Bluest Eye, Morrison challenged readers to confront the ...
American literature Reparational literature| The enslaved female body as text in contemporary novels by white women TULANE UNIVERSITY Rebecca Mark BlessingAnne HanahanUsing postmodern techniques and slave perspectives, late 20th century African-American authors Octavia Butler, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni ...
Abandoning painting in favor of printmaking (which is mass-producible and therefore able to reach more people), Kollwitz rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century with her series of prints depicting the Silesian Weavers’ Uprising of 1844, which was followed by the early 20th century ...
propelled by economic and legal processes of industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawing on the context of women's work in the Indian Collieries, Lahiri-Dutt explores how a workplace with a substantial female workforce at the beginning of the 20th century gradually transformed into ...
“Unveiling Untold Narratives” becomes a catalyst for reshaping our understanding of the literary contributions of Jewish women, both as authors and as the subjects of representation. Join us in this intellectual excavation, as we illuminate the pages that, for too long, have remained in the ...
Evangeline Smith Adams (February 8, 1868 – November 10 or 12, 1932) was a late 19th- / early 20th-century American astrologer, based in New York City. She ran a thriving astrological consulting business, gained widespread notability for successfully defending her astrological practice in court,...
Who are the authors that have influenced you most? The list is very long, but here are a few, all of them classics. American: Henry James and Edith Wharton (subjects of my Ph.D. dissertation and book, Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton). French: Stendhal, Fla...
———. 2015. The Conflict Between Lived Religion and State Control of Poor Relief. The Case of Emma Mäkinen’s Private Orphanage at the Turn of the 20th Century.Perichoresis13: 77–96. ArticleGoogle Scholar ———. 2018. Maternalism and Workhouse Matrons in Nineteenth-Century Finland.Wom...
The Female Novel of Self-Development in the Early Twentieth Century Book ©1992 Overview Authors: Penny Brown About this book An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies...
Le Guin’s work helped pave the way for Octavia E. Butler’s success in the 70s. As an African-American woman seeking to break into an industry dominated by white authors, her work frequently used science fiction to examine racism, sexism and class. Butler’s 1979 novelKindred, written bet...