Norman Mailer is one of the American writers who dramatize sensual pleasure in order to show how American idealism ends up being trapped and corrupted The most remarkable cases are the tragic heroes of Scott Fitzgerald and the tough characters of Ernest Hemingway while the former describes the victim of sensual pleasure, the latter brings the sensuality out from the darkne..
Countee Cullen has never been fully understood as a poet or as a man, for there existed certain ambiguities concerning his earlier life including family background But a short but enormously important biography written by Shirley Washington, his niece, a daughter of his youngest sister, titled Countee Cullen`s Secret Revealed by Miracle Book A Biography of His Childhood ..
Arif Dirlik in Postmodernity`s Histories sees the issue of re-ethnicization in the case of John Huang, China`s alleged attempt at lobbying the Clinton administration In this view, Americans with Chinese surnames were suspected by the US Justice Department to be possible spies working for Beijing Reethnicization here seems to serve the mainstream society in reducing an..
The main purpose of this essay is to suggest that Faulkner`s pro-lynching letter published in Commercial-Appeal in 1931 does not contradict his antilynching works such as Dry September, Light in August, Go Down, Moses, and Intruder in the Dust In the letter, Faulkner writes, they [lynching mobs] have a way of being right The remark has been interpreted as the expression ..