ABCs
The Short of It
Theory
Signifyin'
Wao
100
The "miracle year" for comics.
What is 1986?
100
Author of Interpreter of Maladies.
Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
100
He defines colonization not as contact but "a relation of domination" where race is the marker of subjugation.
Who is Césaire?
100
The historical setting of Thomas & Beulah.
What is "The Great Migration"?
100
More so than any genre, the _______ “has interested itself much more than any other literary form in the development of its characters in the course of time”
What is a novel?
200
He was actually the Monkey King.
What is Chin-Kee?
200
Poe's definition of a short story.
What is “a narrative that can be read at one sitting," and one which leaves the reader with “a sense of fullest satisfaction"?
200
The "interiorization" of an inferiority complex based on socioeconomic iniquities.
What is the epidermalization of colonization?
200
The horse buried like a man.
Who is Strolling Jim?
200
He asked, What more sci-fi than Santo Domingo?
Who is Yunior?
300
The golden pillars at the edge of the universe.
What is God's hand? (Tze-Yo-Tzuh)
300
Type of short story where a striking or unusual event sets tone for the play of the plot.
What is an "event-plot?"
300
Kumar coins this phrase of a migrants entry into a new country.
What is the "shame of arrival?"
300
The factory he worked in manufactured these.
What are zeppelins?
300
Heteroglossia.
What is the presence of two or more voices, discourses, or expressed viewpoints in a text?
400
The three graphic novels that changed everything for the medium.
What are "The Dark Knight Returns," "Maus," and "Watchmen."
400
No end game, random events, absurd logic, the good guy can suffer; as well the slothful can become rich and wealthy. No sense of order. Tries to resemble the “randomness” of “real-life.” No neat narrative denouement.
What is a Chekovian short story?
400
The two words that split the highway sign.
What is caution/prohibido?
400
The name of the poem Malcolm appears.
What is "Roast Possum"?
400
Gave Oscar what he was seeking.
Who is Ybon?
500
This is just as important as the story in graphic novels.
What is form?
500
This is the only sin, Amir's father told him, and it is this.
What is "theft?"
500
Cesaire's only hope.
What is "that peoples remain"?
500
to stop, to refuse to go on
What is to sull?
500
These two things were seen at death and salvation.
Who is the faceless man and the golden mongoose?
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