Essays on Sweat

In the 1920s, women were supposed to conform to being a good woman. White women had gained some leniency away from the husband with the rise of feminism but for African American women, the struggle was much harder. Women were told to conform to the culture of having to rely on a man. Even if...

The Modernist period in English Literature, popular from the 1910s to the 1960s was a period of unexpected breaks in the traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. The Modernist period came to be due to a series of cultural shocks, beginning with World War One. In response to the horrific effects of...

Femininity is a powerful symbol in literature. From Genesis to Mark Antony, the contrast between husband and wife, between the feminine and the masculine, has persisted throughout history. At the turn of the last century, however, African American literature had begun a deconstruction of this stock symbol, a re-examination of the relationship between husband and...