| 1. Identify some key ways that Ernest J. Gaines unifies southern African America as the single town, Bayonne, Louisiana. What elements of his close scrutiny of this hamlet work to provide an analysis of African America at large? |
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| 2. What elements of jazz and eroticism emerge in Albert Murray’s “The Seven League Boots”? |
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| 3. Analyze the influences of the vernacular tradition on Maya Angelou’s poetry. |
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| 4. To what extent and what effect does Harryette Mullen mix traditional quatrains in her poetry with postmodern tropes? |
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| 5. Explain the irony of the title of Adrienne Kennedy’s play A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. |
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| 6. Examine the setting of Sam Delany’s Atlantis: Model 1924 for rhetorical elements generally exclusive to science fiction. What are the key elements that separate science fiction from other genres? |
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| 7. Examine the white characters in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. What is their chief function in the play? |
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| 8. What features of The Chaneysville Incident perhaps expose David Bradley’s earlier occupation as an academic historian before he wrote this novel? |
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| 9. What tropes and stylistic devices distinguish Rita Dove’s poetry from that of her Black Arts era compeers? |
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