Women Identity in Harlem Renaissance

Introduction

Throughout American history, the authors have included several literary elements to draw and create a symphony of words. Contemporary ethnic artists held tight to that tradition. Twentieth-century writers, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich is a fictional tapestries using literary elements of comparison, the background exposure and symbolism.

Richard Wright

In the long black songs (McQuade et al., 1999), the main character is Sarah, and she had just been intimate with a white salesman who went home. As she lay in bed, she thinks she hears her husband's strength and come home, and she sits upright in fear. This fear is combined with a sense of "a huge world" (McQuade et al., P. 2239) that Sarah feels that once she realizes that Silas did not come home just yet. Wright uses a comparison to show that, although Sarah fears the consequences of infidelity of her husband she is basking in the peacefulness she felt in the moments after the act. Although married to Silas, she feels lonely and miserable. Intimacy that Sarah shares with another allows Sarah to be happy for a short time.

Element of the background exposure is used to describe a feeling of hopelessness and anger Silas after he killed a white man. "EF Ah run Erway, A-Ain got nothing. Ef Oh stay n fight Oh Ain got nothing. It Dont make no difference which way to go A" (McQuade et al., 1999, p.2246). Force experienced injustice and inequality, one would not care that he killed in self-defense. He knew that his fate was to die.

Wright symbols to describe the passion and sex between Sarah and the seller (McQuade et al., 1999).

Molten metal covered with her and she was riding on a curve white bright days and dark black night ... to a high red heat waves drowned her in a flood of silver and blue and her blood boiled and blistered her flesh bangbangbang. (P. 2239)

The words "white bright days and dark black night" (McQuade et al., Pp. 2239) were also used to describe the passion felt for Sarah Thomas.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Like other authors, Gwendolyn Brooks uses a variety of literary concepts, themes and elements. The juxtaposition of the background exposure and symbolism of the three elements found in her poems and songs in the courtyard (Brooks, 1963). The juxtaposition in this poem can be found where Brooks (1963, para. 3) mentions the children to do some amazing things, but then her mother tells us that George had sold its gates "(Brooks, para. 3). Brooks also gives examples of comparison, when she says: "Frankly, I do" (paragraph 4), but in the following lines she says that she wants to be a "bad woman."

The first line "I stayed in the yard all my life," is an example of background exposure (Brooks, para. 1). She explains, while growing up, she lived careful and attentive life, staying in the front yard. Another example of background exposure, when the mother begins to tell her that the boy ...