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Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their inquiries and spinning elaborate tales that they later discover to be false. Her entire life is a secret and, for over fifty years, reporters and biographers have tried innumerable methods in an attempt to extract the truth from ...
Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (Holguín, Cuba, [1] 11 May 1928) [2] is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-colonial struggles in order to unsettle what she refers to as the "overrepresentation of Man".
From 1,800 persons in 1782, the total population of free blacks in Virginia increased to 12,766 (4.3 percent of blacks) in 1790, and to 30,570 in 1810; the percentage change was from free blacks' comprising less than one percent of the total black population in Virginia, to 7.2 percent by 1810, even as the overall population increased. [105]
Burnett, Jeanie (Winter 1997–1998). "A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl, Belmont, Virginia, 1859". Childhood Education. 74 (2): 106 – via ProQuest. Chandler, Karen (2006). "Paths to Freedom: Literacy and Folk Traditions in Recent Narratives about Slavery and Emancipation". Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
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Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [7] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 8 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...
Sharyn McCrumb (born February 26, 1948) [1] is an American writer best known for books that celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia.McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson mystery series, the Ballad series, and the St. Dale series.
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