People/Authors
Concepts
Languages
Culture/Identitys
Bonus--Method
100

Described the US/Mexico border as "an open wound."

Who is Gloria Anzaldúa?

100

Jean Bernabé and Patrick Chamoiseau were the authors of "In Praise of _____"

What is Creoleness?

100

A language that is the product of the cultural contact of 2 or more languages over an extended period of time. 

What is Creole

100

In typically French-speaking (francophone) and anglophone territories of the US and Caribbean, this term refers to those whose race and/or culture is a mix of various races and cultuers (typically European and indigenous, African, Asian, etc.)

What is Creole/créole?
100

If treating language like a tool of direct communication empiricist, using it as a medium would be____

What is materialist?

200

Was the ruler of the Aztec Empire until handing power over to the Spaniards

Who is Montezuma II?

200

The following was said to Rey Chow by a teacher: "You have one of those things offered by a _____--a clear writing style.:

What is a colonial education?

200

The visual medium or language that Nahua cultures use to record history and, according to Laura Esquivel, their unique experience of time.

What are codices?

200

In Spanish-speaking (hispanophone) territories (and the Philippines) this term refers to those of mixed ancestry (typically European and indigenous, African, Asian, etc.).

What is mestizo/a ?

200

Roman Jakobson gives three kinds of translation: Intralingual, interlingual, and____.

What is intersemiotic?


300

Author of Not Like a Native Speaker.

Who is Rey Chow

300

Édouard Glissant used this term to describe the socio-linguistic practice in Martinique of cutting up bumper stickers and rearranging them into new phrases.

What is creolization?

300

This language provides the grammatical basis for the fictitious language in Dance Dance Revolution.

What is English

300

A person of Mexican descent living in the United States.

Chicano/a/x

400

Famously said that while he thinks an African writer can learn to write in English, he would certainly hope it wouldn't be like "a native speaker"

Who is Chinua Achebe?

400

By the end of the novel, both of Malinalli's children could speak Spanish and ____

What is Nahuatl? 

400

(Bonus) A type of korean folk music typically involving a singer and a drummer

What is Pansori?

400

Kavita Ashana Singh describes her failure to easily access the Creole versions of Nostrom as this kind of reading experience.

What is translative (or opaque)?

500

While Cathy Park Hong relates the concept of mo'um to feeling feverish as a child when her mother first used it, what does it literally translate to in the phrase "mo’umi a-p’a?"

What is a body?