Reference no: EM133247768 , Length: Word Count: 700 Words
Assignment - The Bluest Eye Literature Report Essay
Description - Step 1 - Select one author and one of that author's works that you believe contains the identity theme.
A Thanksgiving Celebration (Amy). (1985). Rituals of Survival, 75-88.
Alvarez, J., (1986). Small change. Helicon Nine, 14/15, 7-10.
Carmean, K., (1993). Chapter 2: The bluest eye. Toni Morrison's World of Fiction, 18-30.
Casper, L., (1997). Jessica Hagedorn. Identities & Issues in Literature, 1.
Chavez, D., (1993). Evening in Paris. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers, 13-20.
Cofer, J.O., (2003). Primary lessons. Riding Low Through the Streets of Gold, 185-193.
Hagedorn, J., (1993/1994). Black: Her story. Ploughshares, 19(4), 173.
Judith Ortiz Cofer. (2013). Contemporary Authors Online, n/a.
Leen, C., (2010). Stories for the "Hem of Life": Contesting marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street, 95-110.
Lewis, L., (2010). Gish Jen. Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 1-3.
Marchino, L.A., (1997). Denise Chavez. Identities & Issues in Literature, 1.
Morales, A., (1993). Cara de Caballo. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers 149-154.
Morrison, T., (2001). The bluest eye. Literary Cavalcade, 54(1), 30-33.
Morrison, T., & Lister, R., (2014). The Bluest Eye. Introduction to Literary Context: American Post-Modernist Novels, 53-60.
Morton-Mollo, S., (2007). Alejandro Morales. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, 1.
Ocasio, R., (1997). Nicholasa Mohr. Identities & Issues in Literature, 1.
Tan, A., (1991). Peanut's fortune. Grand Street, 10(2), 1-13.
Step 2 - Write a 700- to 1,050-word essay that includes the following:
Biographical information about the author--three important life events that helped shape the author's sense of identity.
A briefly summary of the work of literature selected.
A discussion of at least two different ways the author uses to develop the theme of identity. (Different ways could be different characters or images in the literature.) Use specific examples and quotations (properly cited) from the literature to illustrate these ways.
A discussion about why identity continues to be an important universal theme.