“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
2014
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Maya Angelou | For the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton
, the new president resuscitated an old tradition by inviting MA
to compose and read an inaugural poem. For this occasion she wrote On the Pulse of Morning. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. 2014 |
politics | Toni Morrison | TM
cared deeply about politics, broadly defined. She believed the best art is always political. As a child she was already a member of the civil rights movement, and she took to feminism when it... |
Reception | Adrienne Rich | AR
declined the National Medal of the Arts offered by US President Bill Clinton
, because, she said, of the way that politics was increasing economic and racial inequality, and concentrating power in fewer and... |
Textual Features | Alice Walker | |
Textual Features | Margaret Drabble | After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'... |
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