¶ … New African by Andrea Lee and Autobiographical Notes by James Baldwin or outside work.
In this essay you'll write your own statement about the value of a work of literature and then provide reasons why your evaluation is correct and evidence to support those reasons.
On one level this essay is about your opinion -- you set the criteria by which the work is judged -- but it is also about thinking clearly and supporting your ideas with evidence. If you'd like to sneak a look at this exercise before you start the prewriting, it's on pages 1181-1184 in your textbook.
Before you begin the reading for this section, make a list of stories, books, poems, or plays that have moved you. Some of your entries may have moved you because they seemed so wonderful and some because they seemed so downright awful. Either kind is a good candidate for this type of essay.
Give yourself a little time as you do this exercise. Perhaps you should update the list over the course of a few days, because the perfect essay subject may not be the most obvious choice. You should list at least five possible works. Be sure to identify them fully with title and author and perhaps a source if you own the book or an anthology in which it's included, or know where to find it at the library or online.
Autobiographical Notes -- James Baldwin (Contemporary Literature)
New African -- Andrea Lee (Contemporary Literature)
Jacob Have I love -- Katherine Paterson (Library)
My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn -- Sandra Cisneros (Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories)
Under the Influence -- Scott Russell Sanders (The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, ed. Philip Lopate)
Exercise 5.2A: Pre-Writing: Reread
Directions: When you finish the Contemporary Period (Collection 21), you'll write an evaluative essay in your journal. This essay can be about any work of literature either from this course or outside.
Before you begin the reading for this part of the lesson, pick the piece you want to write about from the list you wrote in Exercise 5.1A. Then reread the piece, paying special attention to the content of the piece and how you react to it. Take notes now about points that strike you and flag quotes you think are significant.
The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
I read just about everything I could get my hands on -- except the Bible, probably because it was the only book I was encouraged to read.
The Negro problem, concerning which the color of my skin made me automatically an expert.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
The world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
The things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other.
It is quite possible to say that the price a Negro pays for becoming articulate is to find himself, at length, with nothing to be articulate about.
It is absolutely necessary that he establish between himself and these affairs a distance which will allow, at least, for clarity, so that before he can look forward in any meaningful sense, he must first be allowed to take a long look back.
The past is all that makes the present coherent.
I hated and feared white people. This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possible because they failed to produce Rembrandt.
The difficulty then, for me, of being a Negro writer was the fact that I was in effect, prohibited from examining my own experience too closely by the tremendous demands and the very real dangers of my social situation.
I love to argue with people who do not disagree with me too profoundly.
I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist...
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