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Community As A Force Of Action In Lorraine Hansberry's "Les Blancs", Lily Jensen
Community As A Force Of Action In Lorraine Hansberry's "Les Blancs", Lily Jensen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper explores Hansberry’s philosophy of community in her 1970 play, Les Blancs. The paper analyzes Hansberry’s use of complex characterization in this text to show the wide reach of the colonial power structure and to show what is required of a community to push for effective action. The paper also analyzes the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Les Blancs, and how this production incorporates and enhances Hansberry’s philosophy of community through the characteristics afforded through theatre as a medium.
Claude Mckay's Protest Sonnets, Lily Jensen
Claude Mckay's Protest Sonnets, Lily Jensen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
The sonnet tradition is rich with change. It is a genre forged in strict conventions: fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, a volta (or even multiple turns), and themes of praise and unrequited love. Because of these rules, sonneteers from Petrarch to Shakespeare, Donne to Rosetti, and Hopkins to Hughes have used this form and bent it to their own personal uses. The sonnet has an intense social, cultural, and political history. This paper analyzes how Claude Mckay both used the conventions of the sonnet tradition and broke from the sonnet tradition in the poems “If We Must Die” and “The Lynching” …