HIstory Expressed Through Literature and Art

The protest against the discrimination of black women's rights and the pain and pride of their history are represented in literature and art. Today’s female innovators speak out against their stifled pleas for respect. Authors Maya Angelou and Nora Zeale Hurtson exemplify this in their writing.
Maya Angelou, a famous writer and author, uses descriptive rhythmic words, and illiterate, repetitive, and unlettered melodies that give the reader a tactility and feeling of and sense of her African heritage and history. In Angelou's poem Still I Rise, she is constantly asking questions and challenging society. She is very consistent throughout her poem to mention her pride, using adjectives such as walking, laughing and dancing. This is important because it is displaying a sense of independence and requital. “Sandra Cookson writes in World Literature Today: “Angelou;s poems..bear witness to the trails of black people in this country…[T]he poems are generous in the directness, in the ...