Study Guide: The Harlem Renaissance, Science Fiction, and Postmodernism

Partially, The Harlem Renaissance occurred because

The Great Migration after the Civil War in The United States

In “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, Sykes is a symbol for

Satan

In “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, Delia is a

Jesus figure

Who does Sykes have an affair with?

Bertha, an obese woman who is lazy

Delia’s religious philosophy can be described as

Calvinistic

In African American Writing, this is a place for social gathering and commentary

Porch

Mr. Clark is an Archetype for

the silent wise man who listens much but speaks little

Mr. Clark comments that Sykes treats woman

like one chewing on sugar cane.

The type of criticism that we applied to "A&P" by John Updike was

Psychoanalytical and Marxist criticism.

In "A&P," Sammy is considered an

anti-hero because of his motivation for quitting

Marxist criticism involves

power structures and reading literature for the motif of exchanging goods for/and services

Sigmund Freud believed that

subconsciously one's appetite for physical love and violence mimicked one's appetite for food

The setting for science fiction must

either take place in a time period after or before our own and in an area that we are unfamiliar with.

In "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison did these things to make him ugly

He shaved his eyebrows, wore a red rubber ball on his nose, had big head phones and glasses on, and put black caps on his teeth

Nietzsche believed that

all people were not created equally and government needed to stop striving to enforce this equality (from Harrison Bergeron)

An example of foreshadowing in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is when

the little boys are filling their pockets full of stones.

In "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson some critics believe that the town leaders were going to have Tessie Hutchinson killed on purpose because

she doesn’t go long with the lottery

Postmodernism means that

there is MORE fragmentation and the inability to commit in literature than occurred in Modernism

Satire is

making fun of something to promote change

Narrative of Ascension

When someone ascends to a new part of the world to better themselves economically and socially and relates a tale about it. Ex: The Jeffersons

Narrative of Emersion

When someone returns from an area of economic gain to “find their roots.” They re-emerge themselves in the culture of their ancestors

Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits”

Story about a lady who cheats on her husband because she thinks he wants money more than her

Alice Walker’s “Every Day Use”

Story about twin sisters in confrontation over family quilts

Richard Wright’s “The Man who was Almost a Man”

David Glover wants to be a man, but he accidently shoots a mule

Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man

The first chapter of a book; the narrator feels like he doesn’t exist; a boy has to fight for a scholarship

Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

Characters more than stories; beast fables that were metaphors for slave stories

Jean Toomer’s “Reapers,” from Cane

A poem from a book; black workers are compared to animals and machines

Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s '“We Wear The Mask”

Because society is evil, we cannot always be ourselves when we should

Dudley Randall’s “The Ballad of Birmingham”

A poem about a little girl who is tragically killed at church

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”

Kids skip school, live fast, and die young

“The Gilded Six Bits”

Zora Neale Hurston

“Every Day Use”

Alice Walker

“The Man Who Was Almost A Man”

Richard Wright

The Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

Joel Chandler Harris

“Reapers” from Cane

Jean Toomer

“We Wear The Mask”

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

“The Ballad of Birmingham”

Dudley Randall

“We Real Cool”

Gwendolyn Brooks