Toni Morrison
What is The Black Book?
This person is the subject of "I Am Not Your Negro."
Who is James Baldwin?
This is when something specific is used to represent something abstract. Example: The moaning wind representing loneliness.
What is a symbol?
This is the part of the rhetorical situation that is made up of word choice, references, structure, tone, and literary devices.
What is message?
This is the literary movement of African Americans that took place between 1920 and 1930.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was Toni Morrison's first published novel.
What is The Bluest Eye?
This person is the director of the film.
Who is Raoul Peck?
This is when authors use descriptive words/adjectives to create a certain feeling in the reader.
What is mood?
This part of the rhetorical situation considers the time, place, political and cultural situation.
What is occasion?
This is the literary movement that took place in the 1960s and paralleled the Black Power movement.
What is the Black Arts movement?
Toni Morrison explains this as the awareness that "authors are explaining things about black life that they wouldn't have to explain if they were talking to me."
What is "the white gaze?"
James Baldwin described himself as a witness of this movement.
What was the Civil Rights movement?
This is the underlying focus or message of the story. What the author wants the reader to discover through reading.
What is theme?
This is who the message is written for. Who the author is trying to communicate with.
What is audience?
This is the movement of Black Americans from South to North that created the occasion for the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
This is the time of day which Morrison describes as her most creative - when she is the smartest.
What is the morning?
James Baldwin was close friends with these 3 civil rights leaders.
Who were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers?
This device uses clues that hint as to things that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
This is what the writer is trying to accomplish by writing.
What is purpose?
This author worked for Random House in the 1970s and was responsible for publishing many of the authors of the Black Arts movement.
Who was Toni Morrison?
This is the dominant ideology or perspective found in history and literature.
What is the "master narrative?"
This is the way that James Balwin describes whiteness at the end of the documentary.
What is "a metaphor for power?"
This is the difference or gap between what the author says and what the author actually means. This is often used in satire.
What is irony?
This is what drives the writer to write. The occasion and purpose all combine to compel the reader to get their message out.
What is exigence?
This author was considered one of the most important voices in the Black Arts movement and was the subject of our documentary.
Who is James Baldwin?