What does that mean?
Define typology?
Its the Puritan idea that their lives mirror or imitate the trials of Biblical figures.
I polish the jade to brilliance
I arrange the black green feathers
I ponder the roots of the song
I order in rank the yellow feathers
So that a beautiful song I sing
The Singer's Art
Aztec
What is Phillis Wheatley's literary significance?
She was the African American to publish a volume of poetry in British North America.
What did captivity narratives do?
Portray race and religion.
What does the attic symbolize in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
A continuation of the confinement of slavery.
Define race.
A method for categorizing humans based on physical differences, but also related to cultural practices, language, and geography.
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view,
Made thee in raggs, halting to th’ press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judg).
The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet
He wrote one the earliest American dramas. He wrote the first successful US play. Who is he?
Royall Tyler
What did Bradstreet's "The Prologue [To Her Book" do?
Advocate for the betterment of women. She wasn't trying to argue that women were equal but that they deserve some recognition for their abilities and contributions.
What was Columbus' Claim to Fame?
He disproved centeries of cosmography (T-O Map and the Five Zone Theory).
What writing style evoked Greek/Roman imagery, gods, muses.
Neoclassical writing style
It started with 600. It ended with 4.
The Relation...
Cabeza de Vaca
What is Columbus' literary significance?
He transforms American Literature from oral to written.
What did Briton Hammon's narrative do?
Depict slavery in a favorable light.
Who is Metacomet?
King Phillip.
Define Praying Indian.
Native American who converted to Christianity.
When they first went out hunting, I lost my way in the woods, having followed a certain bird that seemed to me peculiar.
The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence: “Champlain, among the Huron, Lost in the Woods” Samuel de Champlain.
Who wrote the first captivity narrative?
Cabeza de Vaca.
What did Creation of the Whites do?
Document Native American and European encounters from the NA perspective.
Piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity are characteristics of what?
The Domestic Sphere.
The Europeans believed that the Earth was divided into zones. Name the theory and list the zones.
The Five Zone Theory
Europeans believed the earth was divided into five zones: a frigid zone at each of the poles, a torrid zone right in the middle, which we call today the Equator, and two temperate zones, one on each side of the torrid zone.
And now, That in the Providence of that GOD, who delivered his Servant David out of the Paw of the Lion and out of the Paw of the Bear, I am freed from a long and dreadful Captivity, among worse Savages than they...
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance
Briton Hammon
What was Champlain's literary significance?
He journaled contact with the French and Native Americans. Columbus and others aimed to conquering the Natives, but the French didn't. They created alliances. This is called opportunistic co existance.
What did Wheatley writing To Macenas do? Why might this be seen as problematic?
Demonstrated that she was a serious poet and to prove that black people were intelligent and able to write in the neo classical style.
Because she shouldn't have had to do this--prove her that she is not lesser than.
Who are the characters in a captivity narrative?
What is the landscape in a CN synonymous with?
How is the CN full circle?
Protagonist is the captive who is often a women. Its someone w/ the goal to escape. Antagonist is the NA 100% of the time.
Wilderness=America, Civilization=Europe
There is a return back to civilization accompanied by a spiritual, physical, or mental change.