Kevin Tang | Mini Timeline Project by Kevin Tang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e Kevin Tang Ms. Updike English 11 23 May 2022 en-us 2022-05-22 13:01:16 UTC 2022-05-23 23:04:29 UTC hello@padlet.com "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194494917
  • “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
  • Time Period: Harlem Renaissance
  • Dates: December, 1922
  • Point of View: first person/second person 
  • Themes: Moving up, Hardship, Darkness, Maternal love, perseverance
  • Connection: Langston Hughes’ 1922 poem “Mother to Son” expresses the themes of hardship and persistence to the audience serving as the “son” (1). The poem connects to the Great Migration with the theme of perseverance. This is because the speaker, the mother, advises that even though “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” (2), she persists by climbing the stair, the directly described metaphor for life. During the Great Migration, millions of African Americans moved up north to find work to improve their lives. The speaker communicates to the readers, “So boy, don’t you turn back” (14) to keep persisting through “life” even though it may be more difficult for American Americans.  
    • ]]>     2022-05-22 13:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194494917     Harlem Renaissance ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194495623
  • Time Period: Harlem Renaissance
  • Years: 1918-1937
  • Major Historical Events: 19th Amendment, The Great Migration, The Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, The Great Depression
  • Major authors: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay
    • ]]>     2022-05-22 13:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194495623     The Beat Generation ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194497556
  • Time Period: Beat Movement
  • Years: 1940s-50s
  • Major Historical Events: World War II, Franklin D Roosevelt’s Presidency, Invention of Hydrogen Bomb, Rosenberg Trials, start of Cold War
  • Major authors: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Bob Donlon, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    • “The Rosenberg Trial.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, 25 Apr. 2018, www.atomicheritage.org/history/rosenberg-trial. Accessed 23 May 2022.



    ]]>     2022-05-22 13:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194497556     "America" by Allen Ginsburg ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194497945
  • “America” by Allen Ginsburg
  • Time Period: Beat Movement
  • Dates: January 17, 1956
  • Point of View: first person 
  • Themes: Anxiety, Religion, War, foreign affairs, Stream of Consciousness
  • Connection: Allen Ginsburg’s “America” is a stream-of-consciousness poem in which Ginsburg writes down his anxieties about the American situation at the time. The anxiety in this piece connects to the Cold War time period of history, as it includes direct references to events in the conflict such as “[America g]o fuck yourself with your atom bomb” (Ginsburg 5), which reflects not only the invention of the “atom bomb,” but also many of the fears during this time period as  tensions between the United States and Soviet Union rise. Ginsburg understands that nuclear weapons threaten the entire world, as during the Cold War, many Americans were anxious about the possibility of a full-blown military conflict. Thus, Ginsberg reaffirms, “America you don’t really want to go to war” (65). This statement shows the unrest that Ginsburg as well as many Americans had during this time period since nuclear war would result in the destruction of both the United States and the USSR.

    • “America.” Poetry Foundation, 2001, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f. Accessed 23 May 2022.



    ]]>     2022-05-22 13:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194497945     Postmodernism ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194498126
  • Time Period: Postmodernism
  • Years: 1951-Present
  • Major Historical Events: the Civil , Space Race, Gulf War,  9/11 attacks, Globalization, COVID 19
  • Major authors: Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Tobias Wolff, Flanner O’Connor, Lo Kwa Mei-en 
    • ]]>     2022-05-22 13:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194498126     The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ketang https://padlet.com/ketang/679z352l102b589e/wish/2194498767
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Time Period: Postmodernism
  • Dates: published in 1970 & set in 1941
  • Point of View: first person 
  • Themes: the beauty standard, racial violence, sexual violence, victimhood, legends and folklore, stereotyping, dangers of a single story
    • Connection: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a novel that connects to the Civil Rights Movement with the theme of the dangers of a single story. The Bluest Eye accomplishes this by using intertextuality with the children books, Dick and Jane Series. Morrison uses excerpts that are characteristic of the Dick and Jane Series, which only display the childhood of white, upper class children rather than everyone as a whole. For example, Toni Morrison imitates Dick and Jane by writing, “The friend will play with Jane” (193); however, she shows through the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, that unfortunately not all children have friends to play with and may even resort to talking to themselves for companionship (193-205). Furthermore, Toni Morrison contrasts the Dick and Jane house: “here is the house… it is very pretty” (3) with the Breedlove’s home, a dilapidated, “abandoned” store that they take refuge in. This relates to the Civil Rights Movement in which demonstrators fought for equal rights and against racial stereotypes that characterized people of color under a generalized story.

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