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According to Alexandra Schwarts, there’s a case to be made that this writer was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century.

In Amy Tan’s “Half and Half,” what does the narrator’s mother when she returns to the spot where Bing was lost?

The term avant garde, which mean experimental of new and unusual, translates literally as

In “Sonny’s Blues,” how does the narrator learn about Sonny’s arrest?

In “Woman Hollering Creek,” what seems to be the chief source for Cleófilass concept of romance and marriage?

Returning to Oxford, Mississippi with his new wife, Faulkner moved into an antebellum mansion and began turningthe tales he heard growing up about his hometown and surrounding area into oneof the greatest inventions in American literary history: ________________________ .

In Amy Tans Half and Half, what was Teds mothers reaction to Ted dating the narrator?

This poem was published in 1922 in the Bristish magazine Criterion and the American Dial; It marked a cultural and literary event.  Its long fragmented structure and title refelect the poet’s view of the state of culture and civilization in the years immediately following World War I.

Existentialism suggests a meaningless, chaotic, Godless universe, where individuals may or may not give meaning to their lives.

In E.A. Robinson’s poem “Mr. Flood’s Party,” Flood is