GENG 260 : FINAL EXAM
89 Cards in this Set
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Author of "Recitatif"
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Toni Morrison
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Names of 2 main characters in "Recitatif"
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Twyla, Roberta
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Where was "Recitatif" set?
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NYC & upstate NY
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A style of recitation halfway between singing & speech used by the narrator parts of opera
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Recitatif
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"People changed signs from time to time, but ** never did and neither did I. Actually my sign didn't make sense without **'s.
And so do children what? one of the women on my side asked me. Have rights, I said, as though it was obvious."
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Recitatif
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Who wrote "Riot: A poem in three parts"?
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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What is the technique called used in the opening of "Riot"? (quote by MLK Jr.)
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Epigraph
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What style does Brooke move from/to in "Riot"?
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Blank verse to free verse
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Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win what award?
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Pulitzer Prize
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"Gross. Gross. Que tu es grossier! John Cabot
itched instantly beneath the nourished white
That told his story of glory to the World.
'Don't let it touch me! The blackness! Lord! he whispered
to any handy angel in the sky . . . .
John Cabot went down in the smoke and fire
And br…
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Riot: A poem in three parts
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Who wrote "Invisible Man"?
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Ralph Ellison
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Where was "Invisible Man set?
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Harlem
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What time period was "Invisible Man" set in?
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Harlem Renaissance
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What two authors does "Invisible Man" refer to?
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Booker T. Washington & Dubois
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Who is the narrator of "Invisible Man"?
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Unnamed narrator
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Is the narrator of "Invisible Man" the protagonist or the focal character?
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Both
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"Tat invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality. I am not complaining, nor am I protesti…
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Invisible Man
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Who wrote "Ego tripping"?
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Nikki Giovanni
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What campaign/belief was Giovanni tied to?
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Black art "black is beautiful" campaign
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What does Nikki Giovanni see herself as in "Ego Tripping"?
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Female God
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Where was "Ego tripping" taking place?
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Fertile Crescent
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"I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad"
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Ego tripping
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Who wrote "Native Son"
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Who wrote "Native Son" Richard Wright
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Where did "Native Son" take place?
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Chicago
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What was Wright trying to separate his novel from (which is why he chose to set it in Chicago)
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Harlem Renaissance
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What literary technique is Native Son an example of?
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Free indirect discourse
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Who is the main character (protagonist) in Native Son?
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Bigger Thomas
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"He was sick of his life at home. Day in and day out there was nothing but shouts and bickering. But what could he do? Each time he asked himself that his mind hits a blank wall and he stopped thinking. Across teh street directly in fron of him, he saw a truck pull to a stop at the curb a…
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Native Son
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What person was "Sonny's Blues" written in?
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First person
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Who is Sonny in relation to the narrator?
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Brother
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Why was the narrator out of the country for several years in "Sonny's Blues"
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At war, most likely WWII
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What was the secret that the narrator's mom told him in "Sonny' s Blues"
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His father had a brother who had died
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What is the narrator's job in "Sonny's Blues"
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Teacher in Harlem
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What does Sonny want to do with his life in "Sonny's Blues"
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Become a jazz musician
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What is the Double V Campaign?
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Aim for victories both at home & abroad, for racism
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What did President Truman do in 1948?
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Ordered desegregation of armed forces
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"*** began to tell us what the blues were all about. They were not about anything very new. He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin destruction madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are d…
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Sonny's blues
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Who wrote "4/30/92 for Rodney King"
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Lucille Clifton
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What was significant about the Rodney beating?
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Caught on camera
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Where did Rodney King riots take place?
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LA
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"mama
mama
if we are nothing
why
should we spare
the neighborhood
mama
mama
who will be next and
why should we save
the pictures"
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4/30/92 for Rodney King
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Who wrote The Street: "The Apartment"
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Ann Petry
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What idea does "The Apartment" Convey?
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Naturalism
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Who is the main character in "The Apartment"?
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Lutie
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Who does Lutie blame for people's oppression?
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Who does Lutie blame for people's oppression? People themselves
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When & where did "The Apartment" take place
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Harlem, 1940's
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What was Lutie's son's name? How old was he?
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Bub, 8
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What was the name of Lutie's apartment super?
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Mr. Jones
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Who did Lutie kill at the end of the story? How?
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Boots with a candlestick
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Where did Lutie flee to?
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Chicago
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Where did she leave her son?
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Children's shelter
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"It did everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street. It found all the dirt and dust and grime on the sidewalk and lifted it up so that the dirt got into their noses, making it difficult to breathe; the dust got into their eyes and blinded them; and the grit stung…
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The Street: "The Apartment"
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Who wrote "To Da-Duh in Memoriam"
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Paule Marshall
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What two places were portrayed in "To Da-Duh in Memoriam"
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NYC & Barbados
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Who/what was "Da-Duh"
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narrator's grandmother
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What was a main symbol in "To Da-Duh in Memoriam" that was also a representation of slavery?
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What was a main symbol in "To Da-Duh in Memoriam" that was also a representation of slavery?
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Who is the narrator in "To Da-Duh in Memoriam"
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Author
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In "To Da-Duh in Memoriam" the two girls start out as friends, rivals or neutral?
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Rivals
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"For a brief period after I was grown I went to live alone, like one doing penance, in a loft above a noisy factory in downtown New York and there pained seas of sugar-cane and huge swirling Van Gogh suns and palm trees striding like Tutsi Warriors across a tropical landscape, while the t…
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To Da-Duh in Memoriam
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Who wrote "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house?"
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Audre Lorde
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What was the main theme of "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house?"
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Womanism
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Where was the opening speech being given in "The master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house?"
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Feminist convention
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"Womanist is to ____ as purple is to _____"
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Feminism, lavender
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Audre Lorde believed white and black feminists should start paying attention to their what?
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Differences
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"Poor women and women of COlor know there is a difference between the daily manifestations of marital slavery and prostitution because it is our daughters who line 42nd street. If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in…
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
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Who wrote "Dutchman"?
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Amir Baraka
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What does the title "Dutchman" allude to (2 things)?
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Flying Dutchman, Negro landing at Jamestown
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Who are the two main characters in "Dutchman"?
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Clay & Lula
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What does Lula call Clay which causes him to stop talking to her and react angrily?
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Uncle Tom
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"An act. Lies. Device. Not the pure heart, the pumping black heart. You don't ever know that. And I sit here, in this buttoned-up suit, to keep myself from cutting all your throats . . . If Bessie Smith had killed some white people she wouldn't have needed that music. She could have talke…
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Dutchman
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Who wrote "The Fire Next Time?"
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James Baldwin
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What time period was "The fire next time" set in?
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During Civil Right's Movement
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What racial/political group did Baldwin meet with?
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Nation of Islam
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What person was the face of the Nation of Islam?
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Malcolm X
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Did the Nation of Islam believe in separatism or integration?
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Separatism
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What was the Nation of Islam's beliefs about violence?
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Justified in self-defense
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What person was the face of the SCLC?
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MLK Jr.
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Did the SCLC believe in separatism or integration?
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Integration
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What was the SCLC's beliefs about violence?
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Non-violence
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What was the controlling metaphor in "The Fire Next Time?"
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Noah's ark
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"White Americans find it . . . difficult . . . to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. This assumption . . . makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt whit…
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The fire next time
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Who wrote "Bloodchild"?
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Octavia Butler
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What were the two groups in "Bloodchild"
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TLIC and Terran
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Which group in "Bloodchild" were more powerful?
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TLIC
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What idea is conveyed in "Bloodchild"
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Afrofuturism
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Who was the narrator in "Bloodchild"
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Gan
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What was the gender of the narrator in "Bloodchild"
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male
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What technique is used in "Bloodchild"
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defamiliarization
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"***should be protected from seeing.
I didn't like the sound of that - and I doubted that it was possible. 'Not protected,' I said. 'Shown. shown when we're young kids. And shown more than once."
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Bloodchild
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GENG 260 : FINAL EXAM