Chapter 36 - The Voices of Liberation

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• Historical Context
  • decolonization movements
  • demands for equality among second and third world
• Diverse voice
  • Neruda and Latin America
  • liberation and African-Americans
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • poetry of Langston Hughes
    • Richard Wright
• Civil rights movement
  • James Baldwin
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The arts
  • African-American contribution to visual arts
  • jazz and dance
• Quest for gender equality
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • feminist poetry
  • feminist art

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Outline

• Hallmark of the twentieth century has been the quest for:
  1. poverty
  2. oppression
  3. inequality
• Movements for decolonization followed the Second World War
  1. racial and ethnic minorities throughout the world
  2. African-Americans in the United States
  3. Latinos
  4. Indigenous peoples throughout the world
• Feminist movements - worldwide
  1. political, economic, social equality
  2. Woolf and Beauvoir realize the psychological conditions of oppression
  3. feminists have redefined traditional concepts of identity - both male and female

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