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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionJack London is generally regarded as a master of naturalistic fiction. As such, his stories deal with the larger assumptions of naturalism that are based on both Darwinism and Marxism. In London's fiction humanity is...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersThe novels and stories of Bernard Malamud deal with downtrodden losers whose lives consist of facing hardship and humiliation, which they may or may not be able to endure. Many of his characters are Jewish, inhabiting...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Louis L'Amour is undoubtedly the most widely read and best selling western author ever. His domination of the popular western for over forty years has helped to develop the genre, which continues to fascinate readers of...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)William Inge remains an interesting phenomenon in American drama. His impact upon critic and public alike demands that he be included in any serious consideration of the postwar theatre, but in subject matter and in...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey is usually considered as part of the "angry" upsurge of the late 1950s which shook the British theatre out of its complacency and boredom. But it equally belongs with a contemporaneous...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Jack London was a talented writer so caught up in certain myths that they were part of what destroyed him. The illegitimate son of an impoverished spiritualist, Flora Wellman, he early learned self-reliance. Although he...
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From: Modern Latin American Literature[Neruda's] first book in which a really personal voice emerges is 20 poemas de amor y una canci ón desesperada (`20 love poems and one song of despair', 1924). For one, the poems are statements of Neruda's personal...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersSusan Howatch began writing Gothic novels in the 1960s. Her first novels, including The Dark Shore (1965), April's Grave (1969), and The Devil on Lammas Night (1972), were popular with readers of the Gothic genre....
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Playwright Ron Milner is considered one of the more exciting writers who came to national prominence during the explosive Black Theatre movement of the 1960s. Much like his contemporaries, Ed Bullins and Amiri Baraka, he...
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From: International Fiction Review[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Nilsen examines identities that present themselves to Neil Klugman. These range from the immigrant Jewish culture in inner-city Newark to the “crippling conventionalism” of...
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From: Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Reilly analyzes Albert Camus’s engagement with previous plague outbreaks and literature in The Plague, noting as well how his characters’ attempts to interpret their situation...
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From: Public Interest[(review date fall 1997) In the following review of Promiscuities, Schaub commends the seriousness of Wolf's feminist concerns, but faults her "sloppy" eclecticism and contradictory aims.] Clearly, it will not be...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThe short stories published by Ezekial (Es'kia) Mphahlele between 1946 and 1967 raise issues inherent in the production of literature by black South Africans in the early years of grand apartheid. The short story was a...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Laymon discusses his experience in a seminar with Coates and his concern that “there was so much [Coates] had yet to read.” Laymon explains why he does not agree with Coates’s...
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From: The New York Magazine[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Wallace-Wells mentions people, such as Toni Morrison, who have declared Coates the new James Baldwin and praised his books extravagantly. In a portrait of Coates, Wallace-Wells...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Ferguson offers a paean to the Black intellectuals of the last generation, including Coates’s father, and examines the people who worked to build a Black intellectual class...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Moll Flanders was first published in 1722, and may be counted among the earliest of novels in English. The term ``novel,'' however, should be applied to this work with some caution; much of the interest of Moll Flanders...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)The production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf established Ntozake Shange as a major force in American theatre. True to the Xhosa name she had received in 1971, she was indeed...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionJuan Carlos Onetti's story "Jacob y el otro" ("Jacob and the Other"), first published in 1961 and later the title story of a 1965 collection, received an honorable mention in an international competition organized by...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Sharon Pollock's early plays are typical of the large branch of Canadian theatre which directly explores the country's history, employing documents but moving from them in a subjective response to events and an...