Author Bios
This author lived much of his life in Oxford, Mississippi.
Who is William Faulkner?
This author is known for novels like Beloved and Song of Solomon, in addition to short stories like "Recitatif."
Who is Toni Morrison?
The assassination of this civil rights figure inspired Eudora Welty's short story "Where is the Voice Coming From?".
Who is Medgar Evers?
This term is often used interchangeably with "local color" to denote a literary movement that focused on American locales, their dialects, their natural landscapes, etc.
What is regionalism?
This word denotes the practice of extending a country’s power abroad, typically through military force and/or diplomacy.
What is imperialism?
This author attended the Carlisle School, a Native American boarding school led by Richard Henry Pratt.
Who is Zitkala-Sa?
In addition to poetry, this writer is famous for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which was not well-known in her lifetime but gained greater attention via Alice Walker decades later.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This "treatment," developed by Silas Weir Mitchell, deprived people (largely women) of mental and social stimulation in an attempt to quell their "hysteria."
What is the "rest cure"?
This literary movement attempted to represent life as it actually is, typically focusing on working-class people and their everyday affairs.
What is realism?
This is an all-encompassing term for religious or spiritual beliefs and/or practices that lie outside the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Islam, and especially Christianity) and typically revere nature.
What is paganism?
This author was white-passing but opted to be legally classified as black, per the Jim Crow system.
Who is Charles W. Chesnutt?
After initially writing two novels set elsewhere, this author wrote Sartoris, his first novel with a setting based on his hometown.
Who is William Faulkner?
This historical phenomenon, which saw the movement of about 6 million black people out of the American South, laid the groundwork for the Harlem Renaissance to happen.
What is the Great Migration?
This literary movement is said by some to have started after World War I and attempted to find new truths within this period of perceived chaos.
What is modernism?
This word describes short poetry that expresses the emotions of a speaker, thus frequently using the word "I."
What is (the) lyric?
This author was nicknamed the "Dean of American Letters" for his contributions to American literature.
Who is William Dean Howells?
This author wrote an anonymously published essay in praise of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
Who is Herman Melville?
This political movement, supported by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, endorsed certain forms of art and literature with the aim of asserting an American culture distinct from that of Europe.
What is the Young America Movement?
This literary movement occurred in a specific neighborhood in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissnace?
This word is a Lagos-based slang term for a Nigerian person who temporarily lives in America, then returns home having adopted American customs.
What is Americanah?
This author founded the Broadside Press, which published many big names of the Black Arts Movement.
Who is Dudley Randall?
This poet of the Harlem Renaissance wrote "I, Too."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This school of literary criticism, which arose in the mid-1900s, advocated "close reading" as a textual method.
What is the New Criticism?
This word, applied to the literary period of the late 1800s, literally means "after the war."
This word is used to denote fiction about fiction.
What is metafiction?