Author! Author!
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
“He saw things as black and white. And black was evil.”
What is the white supremacist rationale for British colonial power?
during her lifetime only 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems were published.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Our modern English translation of Beowulf was written by this Irish poet.
Who is Seamus Heaney?
European colonial powers met in 1884 to divvy up the continent of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart”
Who is Chinua Achebe?
“the blow of a sledgehammer”
What is DR. STOCKMANN'S manuscript, a.k.a. the truth?
To counteract Eurocentric narratives, he sought to communicate the indigenous point-of-view through literature.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
a figurative, two-word phrase used in place of a standard noun, operating like a poetic riddle
What is a kenning?
Achebe alludes to this apocalyptic poem in the title of his 1958 novel.
What is The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats?
“All who live by lies ought to be exterminated like vermin!”
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness”
What is each gunshot Meursault fires when murdering a man on the beach?
The original writer of the epic poem, Beowulf.
Who is...nobody knows!!!?
Characterized as the “wrecker of mead-benches”
Who is Grendel?
Achebe tells the story of colonial Nigeria from this tribe's cultural perspective.
Who are the Igbo?
“For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate”
Who is Albert Camus?
“As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others”
What is Okonkwo's taboo?
Who is Bob Ferguson?
"a resolute blow that bit deep into her neck-bone and severed it entirely, toppling the doomed house of her flesh"
Who is Grendel's mother?
Achebe's protagonist has a painful realization, that “Living fire begets cold, impotent ash” (153)
Who is Okonkwo?
“He reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary”
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
"tail-turners"
He made us out of clay and then gave us fire.
Who is Prometheus?
His last words are, "Now I must follow them."
Who is Beowulf?
This proverbial animal character faces an impossible challenge: “Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig”
Who is Eneke the bird