The “Lost Generation”
World War I gave rise to what we have come to know today as the “ Lost Generation”. The very denotation of the word ‘ lost’ has connotations of disorienta...
Author: Tarab
Introductory context to Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925)
To this date, Scott F. Fitzgerald is one of the most, if not, the most famous chronicler of 1920’s America. The “Roaring 20’s” or “The Jazz age” occupy periods ...
Race as a dictator of fate?
At the peak, or height of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen published her novel Passing (1929). The context in which Larsen lived in at the time meant that t...