AMERICAN LiTERATURE - CHAPTER 6.4
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What is postmodernism?
Literary movement that rejected the idea of absolute truths, believing instead that meaning is subjective and created by the reader.
What is the difference between a memoir and an autobiography?
A memoir is typically shorter or more limited in scope, while an autobiography makes some attempt at a comprehensive overview of the writer’s life.
Who revitalized the genre of the story in the 1900s?
Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
Who did Raymond Carver study under?
John Gardner
What is a short short?
A very brief story, often only one or two pages long.
What is the central part of a short short story?
The element of plot.
What were Tony Kushner’s Angels in America plays about?
The AIDS epidemic and the psychic cost of closeted homosexuality in the 1980s and 1990s.
What is Beth Henley (1952–) nationally known for?
Her play Crimes of the Heart (1978), about three eccentric sisters whose affection helps them survive disappointment and despair.
What was Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) best known for?
The Heidi Chronicles (1988), about a successful woman professor who confesses to deep unhappiness and adopts a baby.
What was the first English-speaking colonial area?
the Northeast
What was the cultural powerhouse of the Northeast?
Boston, Massachusetts
Where does novelist Joyce Carol Oates set many of her gothic works?
upstate New York
What was Cloudsplitter? (1998)
Russell Banks' historical novel about 19th-century abolitionist John Brown.
Where do Don DeLillo’s protagonists seek identities?
In media and consumerism.
Which three books comprise “The New York Trilogy” by Paul Auster?
City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room. (1986)
Who is David Bradley? (1950–)
Author known for his Faulkner Award-winning novel, The Chaneysville Incident. (1981)
Who is Trey Ellis? (1962–)
A novelist, journalist, and proponent of the New Black Aesthetic.
Who is Bobbie Ann Mason? (1940–)
Southern novelist known for her authentic depictions of working-class life in rural Kentucky.
Who is Richard Ford? (1944–)
Author known for his subtle novel set in New Jersey, The Sportswriter (1986), and its sequel, Independence Day (l995).
“Frank Bascombe, a dreamy, evasive drifter, loses all the things that give his life meaning – a son, his dream of writing fiction, his marriage, lovers and friends, and his job. Bascombe is sensitive and intelligent — his choices, he says, are made “to deflect the pain of terrible regret” — and his emptiness, along with the anonymous malls and bald new housing developments that he endlessly cruises through, mutely testify to the author’s vision of a national malaise.”
Which novel does this describe?
Independence Day (1995)
What was the first feminist novel by an African American?
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
What is the main focus of midwestern fiction?
Realism
“The lost kingdom is a large family farm held for four generations, and the forces that undermine it are a concatenation of the personal and the political.”
Which novel does this describe?
A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley
What is The Corrections (2001) about?
The physical and mental deterioration of a patriarch suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Who is Charles Johnson? (1948–)
Acclaimed American scholar and novelist known for his novel Middle Passage. (1990)
Who is Robert Olen Butler? (1945–)
Fiction writer and professor best known for his short stories about the complexities of the Vietnam War.
Who was Wallace Stegner? (1909–1993)
Novelist known for his works chronicling the history and landscapes of the American West, often called the "Dean of Western Writers."
What plot does Thomas McGuane (1939–) typically depict in his stories?
One man goes alone into a wild area, where he engages in an escalating conflict.
Who was Texan Larry McMurtry? (1936–)
Novelist known for his vivid portrayals of the American West and contemporary Texas.
Who is Barbara Kingsolver? (1955–)
Poet whose work is celebrated for its deep commitment to social justice and environmentalism.
What was Sandra Cisneros' best selling book?
The House on Mango Street (1984)
What is the most important theme in Southwestern writing?
Healing
Who wrote “The Joy Luck Club?”
Amy Tan
Who is the best-known writer with roots in the Dominican Republic?
Julia Alvarez (1950–)
Who was Jack Kerouac? (1922–1969)
Father of the Beat Generation, and a pioneer of "spontaneous prose."
What was the Beat Generation?
A group of artists in the 1950s that rebelled against mainstream values with topics of drug experiments, radical politics, explicit promiscuity and Eastern mysticism.
Who was James Baldwin? (1924–1987)
Novelist and playwright who wrote about sexuality before the subject was mainstream.
What is Notes of a Native Son? (1955)
A compilation of ten essays on race in America and Europe.
What is The Glass Menagerie (1945) about?
Tom's remembrance of his mother, Amanda, and mentally unstable sister who is fascinated with a collection of glass animals, Laura, and how he tries to set up Amanda with a suitor for marriage, but eventually leaves home to never return.