| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library |
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Literary Themes for Students |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Literary themes for students.
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| Contents |
Race and predjudice in American literature -- Race and predjudice in British literature -- Race and predjudice in World literature -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- Angels in America / Tony Kushner -- The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Alex Haley and Malcolm X -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Blacks / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bury my heart at wounded knee: an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- "Everything that rises must converge" / Flannery O'Connor -- Farewell to Manzanar / James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- "A good day" / Primo Levi -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- "King of the bingo game" / Ralph Ellison -- The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Native son / Richard Wright -- "The Negro speaks of rivers" / Langston Hughes -- Nisei daughter / Monica Sone -- A passage to India / E.M. Forester -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- "What you pawn I will redeem" / Sherman Alexie -- Class and caste -- Disabilities, illness, and social stigma -- Ethnic cleansing, genocide, and exile -- Ethnicity -- Gender -- Religion -- Segregation -- Sexual orientation -- Slavery |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966- What you pawn I will redeem
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Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Blacks.
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Brown, Dee, 1908-2002. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. Awakening
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Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Souls of black folk.
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Ellison, Ralph. King of the bingo game
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Passage to India.
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Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. Achterhuis. English.
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Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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Haley, Alex. Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Raisin in the sun.
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Houston, James D. Farewell to Manzanar
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Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Negro speaks of rivers
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Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.tI have a dream
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Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1993)
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Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird.
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Levi, Primo. Good day
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Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy
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O'Connor, Flannery. Everything that rises must converge
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Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.
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Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Ceremony.
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Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919-2011. Nisei daughter
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Taylor, Mildred D. Rolling thunder, hear my cry
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Room of one's own.
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son.
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X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Achterhuis (Frank, Anne) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01361032 |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356110 |
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Angels in America (1993) (Kushner, Tony) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01401302 |
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Autobiography of Malcolm X (X, Malcolm) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01358903 |
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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Gaines, Ernest J.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01371402 |
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Awakening (Chopin, Kate) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01776716 |
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Color purple (Walker, Alice) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01371469 |
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Cry, the beloved country (Paton, Alan) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357737 |
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Everything that rises must converge (O'Connor, Flannery) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01913400 |
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Flowers for Algernon (Keyes, Daniel) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01361029 |
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Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356668 |
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House on Mango Street (Cisneros, Sandra) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01371973 |
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Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356167 |
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Passage to India (Forster, E. M.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356589 |
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Raisin in the sun (Hansberry, Lorraine) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01363721 |
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Room of one's own (Woolf, Virginia) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01363181 |
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Souls of black folk (Du Bois, W. E. B.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01375610 |
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To kill a mockingbird (Lee, Harper) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357783 |
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Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356094 |
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Vindication of the rights of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01358889 |
| Subject |
Prejudices in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Prejudices in literature.
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Race in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hacht, Anne Marie.
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| ISBN |
1414402740 |
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1414402848 |
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1414418876 |
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9781414402741 |
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9781414402840 |
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9781414418872 |
