20th Literature Assignment

For this assignment, you will write letters to three artists from this week’s reading and viewing. You may choose three works of literature or two works of literature and one film. Your letter to each artist should include the following: Tell them what you learned from their work.Ask them questions about their work. For example, you could ask about the deeper meaning of specific elements of the work, or ask them to explain aspects of their work that you did not understand, such as style, tone, voice, metaphors, or plot choices.Tell them how their work is relevant to current issues in society. Your assignment should be written in paragraph form, with at least two paragraphs for each artist. Your assignment does not need to be formatted as a letter. Each paragraph should quote the artist’s work at least once. As in all of your writing for this course, remember to be original in your writing. Do not simply retell information you learned from this week’s sources. For this assignment, you do not need to include a Works Cited page.
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Use the Glossary of Literary Terms or other internet resources to define the
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metaphor
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plot
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postcolonial criticism
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postcolonialism
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style
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tone
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voice
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Maya Angelou
Watch this biographical video (22:05) and read or listen to Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise”
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Sandra Cisneros
Read this biographical information and one of Cisneros’ short stories: “Dirt” or “Puro Amor”
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James Berry
Read this biographical information and one of the following poems from this collection of
Berry’s work: “Caribbean Proverb Poems I,” “Detention and Departure,” “New World
Colonial Child,” or “An Echo After Freedom Bid”
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Nadine Gordimer
Read or listen to this biographical information and one of Gordimer’s short stories: “Safe
Houses” or “Homage”
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Dorothy Hewett
Read or listen to this biographical information and one of Hewett’s poems: “Christmas Eve in
Queensland,” “Nullarbor Tea Party,” “Digging It In,” or “To the Literary Ladies”
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Mazisi Kunene
Read this biographical information and one of Kunene’s poems: “Return of the Bird of Exile”
or “They Also are Children of the Earth”
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