Literary Texts
The main character in The Wide, Wide World
Who is Ellen Montgomery?
J.Z. Smith said religion is a ____ category, not a _____ category
What is an anthropological category, not theological category?
This is the primary way white people came to justify enslavement in the 19th century
What is white paternalism?
These are two (of the four) kinds of print culture
What are tracts & sermons, visual aids, hymns, and fiction?
This is the definition of rhetorical
What is using language to construct meaning and identities mediate power, produce change, and create knowledge?
Coined the term "What Did Jesus Do?"
Who is Charles Monroe Sheldon?
Paul Gutjahr said we should be towards the ____ toward the “classics” category
What is skeptical?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 stated that officials were _____ to arrest an alleged fugitive
What is required?
Christian Socialism believed that this is the result of the sin of greed
What is poverty and degradation?
These are two ways black women utilized rhetorical strategies in spiritual autobiographies
What are emphasizing God's power and calling, and balancing humbleness with authority?
The four sisters in Bread Givers, listed from oldest to youngest, are
(Bonus point for their last name)
Who are Bessie, Mashah, Fanai, and Sara?
Who is Smolinsky?
This group is responsible for imposing the category of "religion"
What are colonizing powers?
This is what Black Christianity says about the Book of Exodus
What is that it represents a story of real slavery, not metaphorical slavery?
This is how long Harriet Jacobs lived in the crawl space
What is seven years?
These are the three main rhetorical goals of black autobiographies
What is accurately portray the violence of enslavement and racial/gender stratification, assert personhood, and insist on black goodness?
This important event was occurring when Harriet Jacobs finally got Incidents published in 1861
What is the Civil War?
This is why Candy Brown opposed fiction as a genre
What is because it "wrongly excited the passions"?
The key concepts of the Great Awakenings
What are crisis conversion, individual relationship with God, reform, revivalism and camp meetings, and new denominations?
Daily Double
What is the tree of intemperance?
These are three rhetorical strategies of slave narratives
What are autobiography and fact, sentimentalism, and evangelicalism?
Jarena Lee was a part of this Christian denomination
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)?
This is a goal of sentimental literature
What is to affirm and create an emotional and moral alliance/agreement between the reader and the text?
These are two ways that black women were prevented from the cult of true womanhood
What are...
1. Piety: the danger of white Protestantism
2. Purity: sexual assault
3. Domesticity: often required to do work outside the home
4. Submission: supposed to be desired but the stakes of that desire in enslavement
There were this many Jewish people in the US in 1790, whereas by 1880 the number had grown to this number
What is in 1790 there were fewer than 2,000 Jewish people in US, versus by 1880 there were over 250,000?
This is an instance of masking in Harriet Jacobs's novel Incidents
What is Jacobs repeatedly stating that she tried to resist Dr. Flint, but resisting that kind of sexual assault was almost impossible and very dangerous?