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June 28, 2011 Native American Non-Fiction Literature review Pocahontas by Grace Steele Woodward The story of Pocahontas, the Native American “princess” of the Powhatan tribe in the Algonquin nation, is well known to most Americans.... One such historical writing on the topic was the novel “Pocahontas” written by Grace Steele Woodward and published in 1969.... Woodward is well known for a number of other works on Native Americans, most notably her novel “The Cherokees”, reputed by many to be one of the most comprehensive and culturally understanding texts on that particular tribe that is in existence today....
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Book review: Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941 by Brad Lookingbill During the 1930s, the American Midwest region witnessed one of its most acute agricultural droughts in the history of the nation.... John Steinbeck's great novel The Grapes of Wrath is a classic example that treated the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl at great length.... The author claims that if the early settlers had studied the feasibility of agricultural production, the quality of soil, the suitability of crops to the climate, the historical patterns of rainfall, etc, the tragedy could have been avoided....
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hellip; Shantytown Kid is also the first Euro-migrant autobiographic novel which addresses the complexities of racial identity and conflict.... Originally named Le Gone du Chaaba in French this novel has been translated into English by Alec G Hargreaves and Naima Wolf in 2007, aimed at non-French Anglo readers.
The story covers the period of Begag's life from childhood to early youth: his origins and his childhood in a bidonville or a shantytown suburb, colloquially called Le Chaaba, outside of Lyon....
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A paper "World Literature: The Clown by Boll" outlines the novel develops the atmosphere of the post World War Germany and depicts problems faced by ordinary citizens.... Thesis In the novel, the absence of love is symbolically depicted through lack of food and poverty.... The main character of the novel, Hans Schneir belongs to a wealthy family and establishes romantic relations with Marie, a young student.... The form of the novel is, however, not only determined by the conception of love as a commodity for private consumption; it is a result also of the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie in the presence of art and is, for this reason, the art form least like art....
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The contradicting nature of Henry VIII's personality has made him one of the most interesting figures to analyze for historians and Margaret George's famous novel, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers can be regarded as an excellent effort in this context.... The commentary of Will Somers, the gesture at the king's court, and who also was quite dear to him, within context of the novel, plays an important part in providing deeper understanding of the king's nature....
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This essay analyzes Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim", which explores a significant relationship between Britain and the entire Asian community.... The novel is relevant to the current society because it highlights certain political aspects.... He ensures that throughout the novel, he uses his spirituality to remain clean.... First, it allows spies to focus on their respective targets throughout the novel....
Hence it can be concluded that Rudyard Kipling does an amazing job in this novel because of the significant revelations about India that he makes....
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The book review "Visual Text in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley " states that it ranges from the printed to oral, from the concrete to the abstract, and from the verbal and the non-verbal.... These themes of Mosley's story will be analyzed in-depth afterward the attempt to evaluate both the apparent and hidden similarities and dissimilarities between the novel in black and white and the film version....
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This book is indeed a highly comprehensive historical novel that gives its readers a full history of the Vietnam War, starting from almost two hundred years before the war actually began.... Many have written several historical books and novels about it, retelling the story from many perspectives....
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