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Maya Angelou (1978) and Have Been Given Some Preparation Work for This Before You Leave for the Summer Holidays Prose texts which complement your poetry text for A level coursework. YEAR 13 2019-20 Task 2: Post 1900 Prose and Poetry Comparison 13D Coursework Mr Brewer In the autumn term of Year 13, for your second and final coursework piece you will need to compare a poetry text with a prose text (a novel, or collection of short stories). In class, you will be studying a collection of poetry from And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (1978) and have been given some preparation work for this before you leave for the summer holidays. You are expected to choose the prose text you would like to compare with Maya Angelou’s poetry and therefore over the summer you should have been thinking about and reading texts which complement Angelou’s themes and ideas in her poems. The following list of texts are suggestions of novels which will work well alongside the poetry text you study next year. Make sure you read around the thumbnail summaries for each novel and then get your hands on a copy and start reading. You must read at least one of these but many of you will want to read several before you choose which text you like best. By the end of the term, you will need to prove (by having a copy of your chosen book(s) and through discussion with your teacher) that you are reading widely and taking onboard a new challenge in your reading journey. Good luck and enjoy the next step of your reading journey! PART I: POST 1900 POETRY ANTHOLOGY Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise (1978) – collection of poems to be treated as a ‘text’. A Kind of Love Some Say Country Lover Remembrance (for Paul) Where We Belong, a Duet Phenomenal Woman; Men; Refusal Just for a Time Junkie Monkey Reel The Lesson California Prodigal My Arkansas Through the Inner City to the Suburbs Lady Luncheon Club Momma Welfare Roll The Singer Will Not Sing Willie To Beat the child was bad enough Woman Work Still I Rise The Caged Bird PART II: POST 1900 PROSE SELECTION You will choose one of the following approved texts and compare this to the poetry anthology: RELATIONSHIPS TO HOMELAND – a text that explores the complexity of the relationship between self and homeland (including, for example, emotional pain, nostalgia, exile, and the experience of ‘returning’- whether revisiting through memory and/or literally). Colm Toibin Khaled Hosseini Brooklyn (2009) A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America -- to against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic charismatic sister behind. sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them. she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment Sebastian Barry Anne Enright A Long Long Way (2005) The Green Road (2015) Praised as a “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his “flawless use From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright of language” (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds and sold. with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to of war. date. UNCERTAIN IDENTITY – a text which deals with the struggle for identity: social and cultural conformity; history, memory and past experiences; competing senses of self; and finding your place in the world. Andrea Levy Toni Morrison Beloved (1987) Small Island (2004) Small Island is an international bestseller. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a Writers' Prize. It has now been adapted for the screen as a coproduction of story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. the BBC and Masterpiece/WGBH Boston. Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status years later she is still not free. She has too many memories as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. engraved with a single word: Beloved. Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize of experiences: the immigrant's life. laureate Toni Morrison. Zora Neale Hurston Zadie Smith Their Eyes Were Watching God On Beauty (2006) (1937) Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford, whose life is a quest to find true love. Janie Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like narrates the story of her three marriages and her search for Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at love to her friend Phoeby. Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she When Janie is young, her grandmother sets her up with a man named Logan once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests Killicks, who becomes Janie's first husband. Logan treats Janie like a child and after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, expects her to meekly obey him. But Janie is strong willed and refuses. When and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the Logan threatens to kill Janie, she runs away with Joe Starks, a handsome and oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his charming man.
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