Authors
Small Island
Who is Andrea Levy?
An Italian woman sits in Regent's Park worrying about her husband.
Who is Rezia?
In Levy's novel, Jamaicans traveled on this vessel to England.
What is the SS Windrush?
This illness eventually took down Baudelaire as well as his mistress.
What is syphillis?
The term for a leading character in a work of fiction.
What is a protagonist?
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Who is Jeanette Winterson?
This blind man tunes pianos and falls in love.
Who is Jean-Yves?
Some members of the class read a story in which a maiden wanders into the woods and is seduced by a sinister character.
What is The Erl-King?
This book (which we did not read this Spring), currently banned in Florida and Texas, was first published in 1970. The author started writing it because she was "interested in talking about black girlhood."
What is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys assume the reader's prior knowledge of other stories.
What is intertextuality?
The Sadeian Woman
Who is Angela Carter?
In Small Island, Queenie must take care of this man while her husband is away.
Who is Arthur?
This collection of stories by Angela Carter, written after The Bloody Chamber, is titled the same as one of its stories.
What is The Black Venus and Other Stories?
This novel won the Whitbread Award for a First Novel.
What is Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit?
Virginia Woolf wrote her masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, in this literary style.
What is stream of consciousness?
To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, The Waves
Who is Virginia Woolf?
This woman thinks a needlepoint sampler in black is just lovely.
Who is Elsie Norris?
Heather showed a car ad in class in which an actor gives a dramatic reading of this poem by William Blake.
What is The Tyger?
In Black Venus, Angela Carter compares Jeanne Duval to this well-known American dancer who also spent time in Paris.
Who is Josephine Baker?
Palestinian scholar Edward Said wrote a book about the West's depiction of the East, thereby coining this term.
What is Orientalism?
Jane Eyre
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
This young girl seduces Rochester after he has been lost outside in the garden.
Who is Amélie?
This novel was originally titled The Hours.
What is Mrs Dalloway?
This novel was the author's only work published in the 1960s when she was in her 70s.
What is Wide Sargasso Sea?
This literary form charts a character's development into maturity.
What is a bildungsroman?