Dawn
Who is Kahguyaht?
what is ooloi that doesn't get along with Lilith and is the parent of Nikolaj
What is Joan Didion's The White Album named after?
What is "passing?"
A lightskinned black person passing as white
Where does The Horror at Red Hook take place?
Red Hook, Brooklyn
When was The Wasteland published?
1922
What is a Utopia?
An imagined perfect society
When was this movement popular?
1960s-1970s
What is the Great Migration?
African Americans moving en masse from the South to the North
What is the gothic cusp?
Transitional phase between different eras of gothic literature
Who did Eliot meet in England?
Ezra Pound!
Where did the myth of Lilith come from?
What is Mesopotamian and Jewish folklore
What do all these things have in common:
Scientology, The Manson Family, Synanon
Cults!
What is social problem fiction?
what are works of literature focused on contemporary societal issues, has been around since the rise of the novel form itself in the eighteenth century, and flourished in Britain and France during the nineteenth century.
What are some conventions of the gothic?
What are castles, focus on fear and supernatural, focus on history, family secrets and ancestry.
What is literary modernism?
Emerged out of 19th Century Romanticism, featuring art works that demonstrated an aesthetic tension between tradition & “the new," and featuring experimentations with narration, artistic form and narrative perspective
What is a neo-slave narrative?
What is a contemporary FICTIONAL work that focuses on a slave protagonist and how the impact of slavery affects modern day.
Surprise Dawn Question!
What is the difference between a simulation and a simulacrum?
A simulacrum is a representation of a person or thing, while a simulation is an entire fake world/place
Give us a quick summary of Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck.
Set in Florida in 1900, Colour Struck begins on a Jim Crow train carriage. Barely making the train, Emma and John's journey commences with an argument. Emma saw John speaking to a lighter-skinned Black woman, Effie, and was immediately jealous, assuming he was flirting. Throughout the play Emma continues to display animosity towards those with lighter skin, which often results in calamity.
Where was H.P. Lovecraft born?
Providence, RI
Where was T.S. Eliot born?
What is St Louis, MO
What are the four parts of Dawn?
What is Womb, Family, The Nursery, The Training Floor
What is the New Journalism?
What is reportage filtered through the subjectivity of the author, rather than through journalism’s attachment to apparent objectivity, employed literary techniques—metaphor, imagery, subjective narration, drama, primarily magazine genre, rather than newspaper
What is the name of the dance competition taking place in Colorstruck by Zora Neale Hurston?
Cakewalk
Why is Delapore in England in The Rats in the Walls?
He moved to his family's old estate after his son died in the war to refurbish the home and learn more about his family history.
What type of poetry was TS Eliot influenced by?
French symbolist poetry