American Literary Movements
The 20th century movement that embodied new opportunities in art, literature, and design for African Americans.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
In the novels, this animal represents the Germans.
What is the cat?
The concept introduced by John Winthrop in his attempt to encourage settlers to create an ideal community.
What is “city on a hill"?
This is what happened to people whether they admitted to witchery or not.
What is being hanged?
What is a book of Nikolai Gogol's stories?
The movement that prompted Transcendentalism.
What is Romanticism?
In the novel, Art mourns the loss of this person's diaries.
Who is Anja?
This is the holiday that Frederic Douglass considers to be shameful for America.
What is the 4th of July?
Giles Corey inadvertently casts suspicion on his wife by asking the court about this habit of hers.
What is reading books?
The name of the story Gogol's class is asked to read by the author that is his namesake.
What is "The Overcoat"?
Disillusionment with the American Dream is examined in this period.
What is Stockholm?
According to Increase Mather, those who participated in this have sinned.
What is dancing with a member of the other gender?
This character has never told a lie until testifying in court.
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
Gogol and Moushoumi do this despite saying they never would.
What is marry a Bengali?
Literature of the American settlers was based on this type of Protestantism.
What is Puritanism?
Vladek's father attempts to keep his sons from being conscripted into the army by doing this.
Starving them and depriving them of sleep. Basically ruining their physical capacity.
These are the two groups that Sojourner Truth says are challenging white men for rights.
Who are black people and women?
Judge Danforth asks Mary Warren to do this in court as proof of her testimony that the girls' behavior is deliberately put on.
What is faint (on cue)?
The concept that Jhumpa Lahiri attributes to children of immigrants.
What is interior division?
Jhumpa Lahiri's work has been said to convey ideals of this new movement.
What is the New Sincerity movement?
The comic Art first wrote about his mother that Vladek later read.
What is "Prisoner on the Hell Planet"?
The counterargument that Sojourner Truth uses in response to religious arguments against women's rights.
What is "Christ came from a woman"?
Hale doubts Proctor’s devotion to Christianity because he plows on Sundays instead of going to church, can’t name the 10 commandments and...
Hasn't had his sons baptized.
The reason why Gogol and Maxine break up.
What is his renewed commitment to his Bengali culture (which comes about after his father's death).