Slave Narratives
Educated in Latin and Greek, she was the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
Who was Phyllis Wheatley
He wrote the poem, "Harlem".
Who is Langston Hughes?
She wrote, "The Bluest Eye".
Who is Toni Morrison?
Octavia was this as a child and would spend time looking at the ground.
What is shy?
Who is Rye?
Slave narratives were read by these kinds of audience.
What were white audiences?
In the poem, "I Too" this is what the speaker wants.
What is to have a seat at the table?
She wrote, "The Coldest Winter Ever".
Who is Sister Souljah?
What is a typewriter?
This happens on the bus and forces the main character to leave.
What is a fight?
Slave narratives included aspects of these kinds of genre of writings.
What are autobiography and memoir.
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance was about this and not just slavery.
What is black culture?
This type of black literature is gritty, dark in tone, and often profane?
What is Street Lit or Urban Black Literature?
Octavia wrote this book or series of books?
What is Kindred or Parable of the Sower or the Patternist Series.
Characters in this story can't do one or more of these things.
What is speak, read, or write?
These two things were usually included in the beginning of slave narrative to prove that the work was actually that of a slave.
She is main character of "The Bluest Eye" and the character who suffered the most misfortune.
Who is Pecola?
According to Octavia, this is an obsession if it is positive.
What is a useful tool?
This character uses a black rock as his name; he pretends to be a police officer.
Who is Obsidian?
These two women wrote letters of authenticity for Harriet Jacobs account, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Who are Linda Brent and L. Maria Child.
The literature of the Black Arts movement differed from literature of the Harlem Renaissance because of this.
What is resistance? OR
What is black nationalism?
These THREE things are all aspects of Black Literature.
What are bearing witness, truth telling, representation, protest, innovation?
This is the reason why Butler is annoyed when she is asked she writes about science fiction as a black person.
What is thinking about the present future or past, or the tendancy to consider alternatives or the examination of the effects of technology or the stimulaton of imagination and creativity?
This people appear at the end of "Speech Sounds" and give the main character hope.
Who are the two children of the woman who is killed?