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38 Cards in this Set
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
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•New identity for blacks
•1920's magnet for black artist |
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Why did the Harlem Renaissance collapse?
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The Great Depression
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What are the characteristics of the "New Negro"?
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• urban
• educated and able to be educated •non-subservient or Uncle Tom like • a subject for serious study and serious literature, not just blackface music hall stuff •engaging in dialogue with other races, as an equal in problem-solving •"under the control of his own objectives," not those of the white majority •not separatist at all, but "American" in the fullest sense •"More and more, however, intelligent realization of the greatest discrepancy between the American social creed and the American social practice forces upon the Negro the taking of the moral advantage that is his." |
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Why didn't Langston Hughes go to the cotton club?
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It catered to the whites
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What according to Langston Hughes was the start of the Harlem Renaissance?
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The play "Shuffle along."
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What was the response of the ordinary negro to the Harlem Renaissance?
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They didn't know that it was going on.
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The "Negro Speaks of Rivers": name the rivers and there importance.
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•Euphrates-the birthplace of humanity
•Congo- •Nile •Mississippi |
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What was Hughes doing with the rivers in the poem?
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He wanted to explain what these places meant to blacks
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A song for a dark girl highlights what dilemma?
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• Different experiences
• Death |
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What happens to a dream differed?
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• festers
• raisin in the sun |
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For what did Faulkner win the Nobel piece prize?
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The Sound and Fury
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Who was the narrator for a "Rose for Emily."?
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•Towns people
• Unreliable narrator |
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What was the town willing to do?
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Let her die.
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What was the smell coming from the house?
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Her dead lover Homer
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How does miss Emily maintain her status?
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She's indifferent to the towns people (ignores them)
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How do we know she was laying with homer?
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Her long silver hair
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What do we call this type of novel?
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Southern Gothic
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Faulkner was known for what type of setting in his writing?
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Southern small town
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Who coined "beat"?
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Jack Kerouac
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What did beat refer to?
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Beatific, and saintly
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According to john Holmes what was Kerouac looking for?
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God
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How was a beat different from a criminal?
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• Beats- spiritual
•Criminals- were looking for stuff |
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Why does Holmes say the best generation annoys the older generation?
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•Vigorous
•Intentions •To curious |
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What destroys the beats minds in Ginsberg's generation?
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•Madness
•Culture |
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What was the gods name mentioned here?
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Maluk
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Who was Carl Solomon?
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A friend he meet in a mental ward
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Why was the first sentence in howl a long one?
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He wanted it to be breathless
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Why did he mention sex and drugs so much?
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•Reality bites and peoples live
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Where does all of this post war and angst come from?
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•Regression
•Communism • Cold War • Materialism |
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Swimmer is often categorized as sci-fi why?
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It travels in time (twilight zone)
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What type of person was Netty at the begins of the story?
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Younger male socialite
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Were was he at the beginning of the story?
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By the pool with his wife and friends
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What idea strikes him there?
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To swim his way home
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Where did he get the name Lucinda river from?
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It was his wife's name
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What was the first thing that he noticed was wrong?
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The season has changed
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What happens to Netty as he travels to more pools?
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The people were unfriendly and he was weaker
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What happens at the party?
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He was called a gate crashed, the bartender was rude, and people was talking about him behind his back
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What happens to his home?
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It's empty, locked up, and rusted
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