Tapestry Voices of the Marginalized and the Masters: American Literature: 1865-Present
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Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters: American Literature helps students manifest and maintain a love of the English language while learning to appreciate the vast diversity of American voices in the literary arts. Accordingly, the fictional stories, poems, memoirs, manifestoes, essays, stage play, and nonfiction articles present literature in a historical context, but also have messages relating to readers and the issues of today.
Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters: American Literature enthusiastically engages readers in both the life and works of authors from varying races, genders, and classes. Included are the voices of the Indigenous (Native) Americans, Third World immigrants, the enslaved and freed Americans of African ancestry, and women. This text / anthology extends readers knowledge of the cultural, historic, and literary aspects of these often overlooked and under-represented American writers. Additionally, there are writings from many of the traditional Masters, like Whitman, Dickinson, Fitzgerald, Stein, Faulkner, and others, which represent the standard Literary Canon. However, Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters in no way covers all the voices of the marginalized or the masters. For every Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Billy Collins, Flannery O’Connor, Maxine Hong Winston, or Toni Morrison, there are hundreds of other writers whose stories, poems, screen, and stage plays are filled with mesmerizing characters, philosophical ideas, and inventive plots that will imbue readers with fresh insights and exciting views of the world. This anthology encourages the reader to draw parallels between the voices first heard in the late nineteenth century, through the growth and upheaval of the twentieth century and the whispers, raps, screams, and songs strewn over the twenty-first-century landscape. This enables them to see themselves and their place in today’s world through the lens of literature.
Preface
Foreword by Dr. Charlotte Pence
Chapter 1 Historical Overview of Indigenous People of the USA
Native American Folklore
Pima Folklore
Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World: The Story of the Creation
The Iroquois Creation Story
Origin of the Human Race
A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North America; The Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe
Chapter 2 Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism 1865–1914
Zitkala Ša (1876–1938)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
The Wound-Dresser
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Link: VI If I Can Stop
Link: X In A Library
Link: XIX The Mystery of Pain
Link: XXI A Book
Link: XXII I Had No Time
Link: VI A Service of Song
Link: X I Died For Beauty
Link: Because I could not stop for death
Link: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Link: “Faith” is a fine invention
Link: Fame is a bee
Link: Fame is a fickle food
Link: Forever is composed of now’s
Link: “Hope” is a thing with feathers
Link: Some keep the Sabbath
Link: Wild night's-Wild nights!
Link: This World is not Conclusion
Link: Before I got my eye put out
Link: In this short Life that only lasts an hour
Chapter 3 Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
*Dialect
Charles W. Chestnutt (1858–1932
The Goophered Grapevine
The Wife of his Youth
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
Link: In the Morning
Link: We Wear the Mask
Link: Ante-bellum Sermon
Link: Sympathy
Link: Frederick Douglass Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Critical Controversy: Race and The Ending of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Chapter 4 Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
Naturalism and the Place of Women
Kate Chopin (1850–1904), The Story of an Hour
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), The Yellow Wallpaper and Essay: Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865–1914)
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
In the Land of the Free
Chapter 5 Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
Negro Leaders
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915)
Excerpt Up From Slavery
Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
The Souls of Black Folk
Link: Complete Text Excerpts The Souls of Black Folk
Chapter I “Our Spiritual Strivings”
Chapter III “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington”
Chapter 6 Modernism 1914–1945
Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
Link: Passing Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935)
Link: I Sit and Sew
Link: Sonnet
Link: To The Negro Farmers of the United States
Link: To Madame Curie
Link: If I had Known
Link: You! Inez! Helene Johnson (1906–1995)
Link: Bottled
Link: Ah My Race
Link: A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America
Link: Poem Link: A Southern Road
Link: Fulfillment
Link: He’s About 22, I’m 63 Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958)
Link: El Beso
Link: The Black Finger
Link: Rachel
Link: A Stage Play Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966)
Link: The Heart of a Woman Link: Common Dust
Link: Foredoom
Link: My Little Dreams
Link: Your World
Link: The Measure
Link: Smothered Fires Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Link: Sweat
Link: How It Feels to be Colored Me
Link: Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Stage Play: Mulebone, A Comedy of Negro Life Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Link: Poems Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Link: Poems Claude McKay (1889–1948)
Link: Poems Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
Excerpts Cane Imagism
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Excerpt The Making of Americans
Link: Tender Buttons Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Link: The Seeing Eye Link: excerpt “A Retrospect,” A Manifesto Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
Venus Transiens
The Travelling Bear
The Letter
Grotesque
Bullion
Solitaire
The Bombardment
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
The Pool
The Garden
Sea Lily
Sea Rose
Oread
Orion Dead
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) Poetry
Link: Poems Marianne Moore (1887–1972) Poetry
Link: Poems Mina Loy (1882–1966) Manifesto
Link: Feminist Manifesto
Chapter 7 Modernist Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
Link: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons William Faulkner (1897–1962)
Link: A Rose for Emily
Link: Barn Burning Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Link: Between The World and Me
Link: The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Chapter 8 Postmodernism (1945–)
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
Link: A Good Man is Hard to Find Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)
Link: Excerpt Invisible Man, “Battle Royale” James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Link: Sonny’s Blues
Link: Going to Meet the Man Art Spiegelman (1948–)
Link: Maus, Complete Text Julie Otsuka (1962–)
Excerpt “When the Emperor Was Divine”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1977)
Link: A Supermarket in California Sherman Alexie (1966–)
Link: From "Bestiary"
Link: Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World
Link: How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
Chapter 9 The Immigrant Story
Li-Young Lee (1957–)
Eating Alone
This Room and Everything in It
Have You Prayed?
Link: The Gift
Link: Persimmons
Link: Eating Together
Link: From Blossoms
Link: Early in the Morning
Link: The Immigrant Blues Naomi Shihab Nye (1950–)
Link: Different Ways to Pray
Link: Catalog Army
Link: The Man Who Hated Trees
Link: Boy and Egg
Link: The Words Under Words
Link: Famous Julia Alvarez (1950–)
Link: New Clothes
Link: Heroics Link: YO! A Novel Gregory Orfalea (1949–)
Get Off the Bus
Nazera
Chapter 10 Black Female Poets and Stories by Women of Color
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men
We Real Cool
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
To the Diaspora
Link: The Mother Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
Link: Wishes for Sons Link: The Lost Baby Poem
Link: Homage to My Hips
Link: Good Times Mari Evans (1923–2017)
Link: Speak the Truth to the People Gloria Anzaldua (1942–2004)
Link: How to Tame a Wild Tongue Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
Link: The Bluest Eye – Full text Alice Walker (1944–)
Link: Everyday Use
Link: ESSAYS: Online
Link: “Gender Violence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” Author, Syamanad Tahir, Istanbul Aydin University
Link: ESSAYS: Online
Link: “An Excerpt from Searching for the Color Purple, ‘The Taboos and Doubters Alice Walker Defied to write The Color Purple’” Author, Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing Maxine Hong Kingston (1940– )
Link: No Name Warrior (From the Woman Warrior), A Summary and Critical Review Octavia Butler (1947-2006)
Link: The Book of Martha
Chapter 11 Today’s Voices
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (1967–Present)
Link: Dreams of My Father
Link: The Gospel of Barbecue Lilith, Short Story Tyehimba Jess (1965–Present)
Link: Freed Song Dream Song
Link: Sam Patterson, Harlem, New York, 1924 Natasha Trethewey (1966–Present)
Link: White Lies
Link: Miscegenation
Link: History Lesson
Link: Flounder
Link: Incident
Link: Saturday Matinee Eve Ensler (1953–)
Link: The Vagina Monologues They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy…or So They Tried
Charlotte Pence (1974–Present)
Link: Mourning Chicago
Link: As a Child You Worried That You Would Be an Orphan
Link: How to Measure Distance
Link: What DNA Knows Billy Collins (1941–Present)
Link: Litany
Link: Aimless Love
Link: River Falls
Link: More Than a Woman
Link: Forgetfulness New Year’s Day Ashley M. Jones (1992–Present)
Link: Friendly Skies, or, Black Woman Speaks Herself into God
Link: Hymn of Our Jesus & the Holy Tow Truck Ocean Vuong (1988–Present)
Link: Aubade with Burning City
Link: Deto Nation
Link: Essay on Craft Christopher Soto (1991–Present) aka Loma
Link: All the Dead Boys Look Like Me
Link: Concerning the Necropolitical Landscape
Link: I’m Yearning For A Riot Roger Reeves (1980–Present)
Link: Domestic Violence
Link: The Mare of Money
Link: Cymothoa Exigua
Text Credits
Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters: American Literature helps students manifest and maintain a love of the English language while learning to appreciate the vast diversity of American voices in the literary arts. Accordingly, the fictional stories, poems, memoirs, manifestoes, essays, stage play, and nonfiction articles present literature in a historical context, but also have messages relating to readers and the issues of today.
Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters: American Literature enthusiastically engages readers in both the life and works of authors from varying races, genders, and classes. Included are the voices of the Indigenous (Native) Americans, Third World immigrants, the enslaved and freed Americans of African ancestry, and women. This text / anthology extends readers knowledge of the cultural, historic, and literary aspects of these often overlooked and under-represented American writers. Additionally, there are writings from many of the traditional Masters, like Whitman, Dickinson, Fitzgerald, Stein, Faulkner, and others, which represent the standard Literary Canon. However, Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters in no way covers all the voices of the marginalized or the masters. For every Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Billy Collins, Flannery O’Connor, Maxine Hong Winston, or Toni Morrison, there are hundreds of other writers whose stories, poems, screen, and stage plays are filled with mesmerizing characters, philosophical ideas, and inventive plots that will imbue readers with fresh insights and exciting views of the world. This anthology encourages the reader to draw parallels between the voices first heard in the late nineteenth century, through the growth and upheaval of the twentieth century and the whispers, raps, screams, and songs strewn over the twenty-first-century landscape. This enables them to see themselves and their place in today’s world through the lens of literature.
Preface
Foreword by Dr. Charlotte Pence
Chapter 1 Historical Overview of Indigenous People of the USA
Native American Folklore
Pima Folklore
Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World: The Story of the Creation
The Iroquois Creation Story
Origin of the Human Race
A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North America; The Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe
Chapter 2 Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism 1865–1914
Zitkala Ša (1876–1938)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
The Wound-Dresser
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Link: VI If I Can Stop
Link: X In A Library
Link: XIX The Mystery of Pain
Link: XXI A Book
Link: XXII I Had No Time
Link: VI A Service of Song
Link: X I Died For Beauty
Link: Because I could not stop for death
Link: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Link: “Faith” is a fine invention
Link: Fame is a bee
Link: Fame is a fickle food
Link: Forever is composed of now’s
Link: “Hope” is a thing with feathers
Link: Some keep the Sabbath
Link: Wild night's-Wild nights!
Link: This World is not Conclusion
Link: Before I got my eye put out
Link: In this short Life that only lasts an hour
Chapter 3 Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
*Dialect
Charles W. Chestnutt (1858–1932
The Goophered Grapevine
The Wife of his Youth
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
Link: In the Morning
Link: We Wear the Mask
Link: Ante-bellum Sermon
Link: Sympathy
Link: Frederick Douglass Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Critical Controversy: Race and The Ending of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Chapter 4 Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
Naturalism and the Place of Women
Kate Chopin (1850–1904), The Story of an Hour
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), The Yellow Wallpaper and Essay: Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865–1914)
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
In the Land of the Free
Chapter 5 Regionalism and Naturalism 1865–1914
Negro Leaders
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915)
Excerpt Up From Slavery
Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
The Souls of Black Folk
Link: Complete Text Excerpts The Souls of Black Folk
Chapter I “Our Spiritual Strivings”
Chapter III “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington”
Chapter 6 Modernism 1914–1945
Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
Link: Passing Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935)
Link: I Sit and Sew
Link: Sonnet
Link: To The Negro Farmers of the United States
Link: To Madame Curie
Link: If I had Known
Link: You! Inez! Helene Johnson (1906–1995)
Link: Bottled
Link: Ah My Race
Link: A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America
Link: Poem Link: A Southern Road
Link: Fulfillment
Link: He’s About 22, I’m 63 Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958)
Link: El Beso
Link: The Black Finger
Link: Rachel
Link: A Stage Play Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966)
Link: The Heart of a Woman Link: Common Dust
Link: Foredoom
Link: My Little Dreams
Link: Your World
Link: The Measure
Link: Smothered Fires Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Link: Sweat
Link: How It Feels to be Colored Me
Link: Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Stage Play: Mulebone, A Comedy of Negro Life Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Link: Poems Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Link: Poems Claude McKay (1889–1948)
Link: Poems Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
Excerpts Cane Imagism
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Excerpt The Making of Americans
Link: Tender Buttons Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Link: The Seeing Eye Link: excerpt “A Retrospect,” A Manifesto Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
Venus Transiens
The Travelling Bear
The Letter
Grotesque
Bullion
Solitaire
The Bombardment
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
The Pool
The Garden
Sea Lily
Sea Rose
Oread
Orion Dead
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) Poetry
Link: Poems Marianne Moore (1887–1972) Poetry
Link: Poems Mina Loy (1882–1966) Manifesto
Link: Feminist Manifesto
Chapter 7 Modernist Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
Link: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons William Faulkner (1897–1962)
Link: A Rose for Emily
Link: Barn Burning Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Link: Between The World and Me
Link: The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Chapter 8 Postmodernism (1945–)
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
Link: A Good Man is Hard to Find Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)
Link: Excerpt Invisible Man, “Battle Royale” James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Link: Sonny’s Blues
Link: Going to Meet the Man Art Spiegelman (1948–)
Link: Maus, Complete Text Julie Otsuka (1962–)
Excerpt “When the Emperor Was Divine”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1977)
Link: A Supermarket in California Sherman Alexie (1966–)
Link: From "Bestiary"
Link: Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World
Link: How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
Chapter 9 The Immigrant Story
Li-Young Lee (1957–)
Eating Alone
This Room and Everything in It
Have You Prayed?
Link: The Gift
Link: Persimmons
Link: Eating Together
Link: From Blossoms
Link: Early in the Morning
Link: The Immigrant Blues Naomi Shihab Nye (1950–)
Link: Different Ways to Pray
Link: Catalog Army
Link: The Man Who Hated Trees
Link: Boy and Egg
Link: The Words Under Words
Link: Famous Julia Alvarez (1950–)
Link: New Clothes
Link: Heroics Link: YO! A Novel Gregory Orfalea (1949–)
Get Off the Bus
Nazera
Chapter 10 Black Female Poets and Stories by Women of Color
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men
We Real Cool
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
To the Diaspora
Link: The Mother Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
Link: Wishes for Sons Link: The Lost Baby Poem
Link: Homage to My Hips
Link: Good Times Mari Evans (1923–2017)
Link: Speak the Truth to the People Gloria Anzaldua (1942–2004)
Link: How to Tame a Wild Tongue Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
Link: The Bluest Eye – Full text Alice Walker (1944–)
Link: Everyday Use
Link: ESSAYS: Online
Link: “Gender Violence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” Author, Syamanad Tahir, Istanbul Aydin University
Link: ESSAYS: Online
Link: “An Excerpt from Searching for the Color Purple, ‘The Taboos and Doubters Alice Walker Defied to write The Color Purple’” Author, Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing Maxine Hong Kingston (1940– )
Link: No Name Warrior (From the Woman Warrior), A Summary and Critical Review Octavia Butler (1947-2006)
Link: The Book of Martha
Chapter 11 Today’s Voices
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (1967–Present)
Link: Dreams of My Father
Link: The Gospel of Barbecue Lilith, Short Story Tyehimba Jess (1965–Present)
Link: Freed Song Dream Song
Link: Sam Patterson, Harlem, New York, 1924 Natasha Trethewey (1966–Present)
Link: White Lies
Link: Miscegenation
Link: History Lesson
Link: Flounder
Link: Incident
Link: Saturday Matinee Eve Ensler (1953–)
Link: The Vagina Monologues They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy…or So They Tried
Charlotte Pence (1974–Present)
Link: Mourning Chicago
Link: As a Child You Worried That You Would Be an Orphan
Link: How to Measure Distance
Link: What DNA Knows Billy Collins (1941–Present)
Link: Litany
Link: Aimless Love
Link: River Falls
Link: More Than a Woman
Link: Forgetfulness New Year’s Day Ashley M. Jones (1992–Present)
Link: Friendly Skies, or, Black Woman Speaks Herself into God
Link: Hymn of Our Jesus & the Holy Tow Truck Ocean Vuong (1988–Present)
Link: Aubade with Burning City
Link: Deto Nation
Link: Essay on Craft Christopher Soto (1991–Present) aka Loma
Link: All the Dead Boys Look Like Me
Link: Concerning the Necropolitical Landscape
Link: I’m Yearning For A Riot Roger Reeves (1980–Present)
Link: Domestic Violence
Link: The Mare of Money
Link: Cymothoa Exigua
Text Credits