Literary themes for students
examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes
Works included represent a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British and world literature. The discussion goes well beyond race, religion, and gender into ethnicity, social status, mental and physical health, and personal beliefs and behaviors.
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- twain, mark
- 1835-1910
- adventures of huckleberry finn
- kushner, tony
- angels in america (1993)
- gaines, ernest j.
- 1933-
- autobiography of miss jane pittman
- haley, alex
- autobiography of malcolm x
- x, malcolm
- 1925-1965
- chopin, kate
- 1851-1904
- awakening
- brooks, gwendolyn
- 1917-2000
- blacks
- brown, dee alexander
- bury my heart at wounded knee
- silko, leslie
- 1948-
- ceremony
- walker, alice
- 1944-
- color purple
- paton, alan
- cry, the beloved country
- frank, anne
- 1929-1945
- achterhuis
- english
- o'connor, flannery
- everything that rises must converge
- houston, james d
- farewell to manzanar
- houston, jeanne wakatsuki
- keyes, daniel
- flowers for algernon
- levi, primo
- good day
- conrad, joseph
- 1857-1924
- heart of darkness
- cisneros, sandra
- house on mango street
- king, martin luther
- jr.
- 1929-1968
- i have a dream
- angelou, maya
- i know why the caged bird sings
- mathabane, mark
- kaffir boy
- ellison, ralph
- king of the bingo game
- shakespeare, william
- 1564-1616
- merchant of venice
- wright, richard
- 1908-1960
- native son
- hughes, langston
- 1902-1967
- negro speaks of rivers
- sone, monica itoi
- 1919-2011
- nisei daughter
- forster, e. m
- (edward morgan)
- 1879-1970
- passage to india
- hansberry, lorraine
- 1930-1965
- raisin in the sun
- taylor, mildred d
- rolling thunder, hear my cry
- woolf, virginia
- 1882-1941
- room of one's own
- du bois, w. e. b
- (william edward burghardt)
- 1868-1963
- souls of black folk
- lee, harper
- to kill a mockingbird
- stowe, harriet beecher
- 1811-1896
- uncle tom's cabin
- wollstonecraft, mary
- 1759-1797
- vindication of the rights of woman
- alexie, sherman
- 1966-
- what you pawn i will redeem
- race in literature
- prejudices in literature
- social conflict in literature
- genocide in literature
- ethnicity in literature
- sex role in literature
- religion in literature
- segregation in literature
- sexual orientation in literature
- slavery in literature
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| 4132673 | 7320984 | 2461 | 883562 | 340574 | HIHS | 255 | T000000HIHS431 | ERESOURCE TLC | 1000 | 1742569409 | 1742569409 |
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