Research paper on Langston Hughes

Write an essay of approximately 1000-1500 words on one of the topics below. You should title your essay, have a clear thesis or main idea, develop your thesis logically and in sufficient detail, use well-formed sentences and paragraphs, use language appropriately and effectively, and follow standard practices in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

1.Research one of the regional writers whom you were assigned to read or who was mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos. Write an essay analyzing one of this writer’s stories.
2. Consult a standard literary history for its general discussion of local color and regional writing at the end of the nineteenth century. Then analyze any literary work that you were assigned to read for this class or that was mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos in light of the historical commentary, discussing differences you see between the story and the general descriptions.
3. Many late nineteenth-century writers wrote in response to contemporary social conditions. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, present a composite picture of the writers’ concerns.
4. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, examine how regionalist texts participate in or challenge racial stereotypes.
5. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, examine the ways regionalist texts can be representative of the general “American” experience.
6. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, discuss the classes of people depicted in realist texts, including how class-consciousness inflects realist representations of American life.
7. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, examine how regionalist writings reflect the distinct cultures and experiences of different ethnic groups.
8. Referencing any literary works that you were assigned to read for this class or that were mentioned during a class discussion or in one of the assigned videos, examine how women activists and writers challenge ideas about the role of women in American society.
You must use at least two library sources (Please remember that you are supposed to be using scholarly sources).