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Chronology
100
In this story, a college student has been "taught to fear and hate white people" and sometimes "feels like a Jesuit priest"
What is "The Search Engine"?
100
This is a preliminary notification that the text or media contains disturbing content
What is a trigger warning?
100
This author of short stories (and also novels) foregrounds Spokane Indian protagonists who wryly comment on mainstream "Indian" stereotypes.
Who is Sherman Alexie?
100
This oral tradition of storytelling is exemplified by The Woman Warrior.
What is "Talk-Story"?
100
The novel version of The Confessions of Nat Turner was first published during this year.
What is 1967?
200
This text foregrounds the protagonist's belief that they are called by God to wreak destruction on their oppressors to avenge the indignities suffered by their people.
What is "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron?
200
The name for this prestigious body of literature--including only books that have ascended from ordinary status to become culturally iconic--is based on the term for elevating an ordinary person to a saint in Christian tradition.
What is "the Western canon" or "canonization"?
200
Some critics complained that this author embodied the problem of "cultural appropriation."
Who is William Styron?
200
This term describes the condition of a people whose members, once gathered in a cohesive area, have been dispersed to different locations over the globe.
What is diaspora?
200
The historical document of The Confessions of Nat Turner bears this date.
What is 1831?
300
This satirical text means the opposite of what it states: its ACTUAL message is that multiculturalism is a negative, ruinous influence on the nation as a whole.
What is the speech "I Have a Plan to Destroy America" by three-term Colorado governor Richard Lamm?
300
This term is associated with the arrangement of words on a page, often to convey or reiterate a specific meaning.
What is typography?
300
This bestselling author tried writing convoluted prose to sound more sophisticated; she shifted to writing stories that her family and other people without extensive English vocabularies could enjoy; she knew she had succeeded when she was told her work was "so easy to read."
Who is Amy Tan?
300
This anthropologist would tell you that there's a lot of room for interpretation in your smile.
Who is Clifford Geertz?
300
"Who Gets to Write What?" was published during this year.
What is 2016?
400
This text is a mash-up of an erotic love poem; an homage to English Renaissance verse; and quotation of a centuries-old dictionary translating the words of one culture for visitors from another culture.
What is Tokinish?
400
In introducing this concept, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "A Negro is sort of a seventh son...gifted with [a] second-sight in this American world."
What is "Double Consciousness" (or "The Veil")?
400
This Professor of Spanish Literature introduced the concept of contact zones, "spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly. asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery. or their aftermaths as they are lived out in the world today."
Who is Mary Louise Pratt?
400
Fieldwork to produce this literary form typically involves living for a time among people belonging to a specific culture and observing and recording their customs and conversations.
What is ethnography?
400
When was the modern concept of race invented?
What is the 18th century?
500
The author of this text is greatly concerned with specific social issues in their home country. The core of the author's arguments, however, are not completely geographically and politically specific in nature; in fact, the author suggests that the country's problems involving intercultural power dynamics are not unique, as parallels are found in other areas of the world.
What is Arabesques?
500
This is a term for English literature produced in new contexts--say, in a colonial space; literature that naturally takes on the flavor of its surroundings, delivering a blend of native and Western linguistic features, semantic and pragmatic qualities, literary heritages, and the like.
What is "contact literature"?
500
This critic and public intellectual lamented both "the decline in our national level of literacy" and "the decline in the commonly shared knowledge that we acquire in school" and suggested that the two were linked: "the school curriculum has been an especially formative element of our national culture."
Who is E.D. Hirsch?
500
Haifa is a city on a map featured in one of the presentations. In which modern-day nation is it located? Which novel mentions this location?
What is Israel and the novel Arabesques?
500
This year featured the first recorded usage of the term "multicultural."
What is 1935?