Let's Get Real
I wrote about the ills of slavery along the Mississippi
Mark Twain
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful...
Dark Romanticism
I began around this event.
WWI
I wrote about the ills of war.
Kurt Vonnegut
Nick might be an unreliable narrator.
The Great Gatsby
I wrote about women not wanting to be married.
Kate Chopin
I am written in non-chronological order.
Post-Modernism
When writing style goes interior.
Stream of consciousness
I wrote about a black family trying to move on up.
Lorraine Hansbury
She will swim away from her husband.
The Awakening
I wrote about post partum depression.
Charlotte Perkins Gillman
Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me.
Nor do I often want to be a part of you.
But we are, that's true!
As I learn from you,
I guess you learn from me--
although you're older--and white--
and somewhat more free.
Harlem Renaissance
Mrs. Gill's favorite quote about the Roaring Twenties.
Making nothing out of something.
A Raisin in the Sun is named for this modernist's poem.
Langston Hughes
The matriarch's plant expresses her.
A Raisin in the Sun
I showed how women can climb the social ladder through advantageous marriages.
Edith Wharton
I was mighty down-hearted; so I made up my mind I wouldn’t ever go anear that house again, because I reckoned I was to blame, somehow.
Realism
The Great Migration landed here.
Harlem
This means to paste genres together.
Pastiche
In this short story she will die of the disease that kills.
The Story of an Hour
I wrote about Roman Fever.
Henry James
I may combine Pastiche and Parody with Dark Humor.
Post-Modernism
I ended for these two reasons.
The Great Depression and WWII
Mrs. Gill says postmodernism is so over and we should be in this literary period which she would like to name...
Dystopian Literary Period
Toilet plungers have no free will.
Slaughterhouse Five.