Jacqueline Bobo says this character in the film version of The Color Purple is stereotypically “an orphan Annie.”
Who is Celie?
100
This musical stereotypes Asian women as prostitutes.
What is Miss Saigon?
100
This is the name of the lake where Ann takes Evelyn.
What is Pyramid Lake?
100
Who is Anney Boatwright's favorite singer?
Who is Kitty Wells?
100
This friend of Bone's appears in the book, but not in the movie.
Who is Shannon Pearl?
200
This feminist writer in “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” writes, "when I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women..."
Who is Audre Lorde?
200
Yuri Kochiyama says this Black Panther member "has supported everyone, all the underdogs and the marginalized…”
Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal?
200
"And may a bridegroom bring her to a house" is a line from a poem, entitled "A Prayer for My Daughter" by this poet, who Evelyn studies for her work.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
200
In these two families, one family of women stay at home while the other family of women work outside the home.
Who are the Waddell and Boatwright families?
200
In The Desert of the Heart, Bill acts as an obstacle to Ann and Evelyn's relationship. In the film, Desert Hearts, this character becomes the obstacle.
Who is Frances?
300
This character from the novel The Color Purple discovers Jim Crow laws when she notices that only white people can eat in certain restaurants.
Who is Nettie?
300
This Maxine Hong Kingston novel includes a narrator, Fa Mu Lan, who speaks to what it means to be a woman and Asian American.
What is The Woman Warrior?
300
This is the belief that women are heterosexual by nature and that lesbianism is unnatural or deviant, coined by Adrienne Rich.
What is Compulsory Heterosexuality?
300
On the first day of school in a new district, Bone introduces herself as someone from Atlanta, GA using this this fictional name.
Who is Roseanne Carter?
300
These are the two places that final scenes in Desert of the Heart and Desert Hearts occur.
What are the steps of the courthouse and the train station, respectively?
400
In the Bobo chapter, Ellen Seiter notes that this genre of film "introduces injustice, evil, and chaos into its dramatic world but does not resolve the issues it portrays except by a ‘kind of narrative sleight-of-hand’”
What is melodrama?
400
Mike Wayne critiques this concept involving the "voice over" in documentary films. He suggests that "the people who are the subject of the documentary must rely on the enlightened elites of society (like the filmmaker, for example) for some improvement in their condition."
What is the Victim Motif?
400
Name three of the obstacles that can prevent a lesbian relationship in a lesbian romance film, according to Stacey article.
What are heterosexual men, suicide, murder, neurosis, isolation, depression, homophobia, fear of discovery?
400
Bone uses this strategy to cope with abuse. In Bone’s head this is a survival tactic – “In them[the fantasies], I was very special…”
What is storytelling?
400
In the book The Color Purple, Nettie and Samuel come home because most of the Olinka have joined the mbeles in the forest. They arrive home without any problem. In the film, they are unable to gain entrance into the U.S. until this person pays an immigration tax. This is another Spielberg addition that Bobo uses to argue that Spielberg's film is androcentric.
Who is Mr._________?
500
These are three links to Black history found within The Color Purple that Dr. Kick discussed along with larger social issue perspectives.
What are Jim Crow, The Congo, and "Black is Beautiful?"
500
These are the three stages of feminist empowerment as explained in lecture.
What are [1] women change their ideas about the causes of their powerlessness, [2] they recognize the systemic forces that oppress them, and [3] they act to change the conditions of their lives.
500
Adrienne Rich writes that this “include[s] a range—through each woman’s life and throughout history—of woman-identified experience; not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman.”
What is the lesbian continuum?
500
Dr. Kick noted that this fictional account of motherhood is a conscious strategy of Dorothy Allison's to "expose the lies women often tell themselves about loyalty among women: 'Pretending that our mothers do not fail us..., just puts a gloss over this gaping wound which allows it to lie there and fester the rest of your life.'"
What is the Myth of the Happy Family?
500
In the book, Bone finds this in the river and uses it to break into this place. The movie does not mention it.