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Black Writers Richard Wright Native Son Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance and Women’s Voice Toni Morrison winner of a Nobel Prize in literature black experience the black community Beloved Amy Tan an American writer of Chinese descent The Joy Luck Club New Drama Eugene O’Neill the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1936 The Hairy Ape Tennessee Williams writing about the isolated and lonely people The Glass Menagerie Arthur Miller The Glass Menagerie Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman The tale tells the life and death of the ordinary working man Willy Loman. Willy is a hard-working and good-natured salesman who holds firm in his convince about achieving the American dream. His dream is indeed not ambitious. He wants to establish his own business, to pay off the mortgage on his house, to have successful children and live happily and peacefully with his family. Unfortunately, the reality is cruel. He is to be dismissed by the company he has been working for 30 years because he is getting old. His two sons, for whom he has great expectations, turn out to be losers in society, one a thief and the other a braggart. Disillusioned, he desperately killed himself in order to get life insurance money for his family. 2. Art 2.1 Film In the early 1900s Within a few years During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s 2.2 Music 2.2.1 Jazz 2.2.2 Rock and Country 2.3 Theater in 1752 during the early nineteenth century By the 1920s the twentieth century Today’s American theater 2.4 The Visual Arts The Visual Arts the Hudson River school “ash-can” school modernists abstract painters abstract expressionism works of mixed media Joyful Moment  A thoughtful Man Coleridge, the Poet, once dined in company with a person who listened to the conversation and said nothing for a long time; but occasionally nodded his head, and Coleridge concluded him a thoughtful and intelligent man. At length, toward