Exploring Black Arts and Gothic Literature

Black Arts Movement Roots

• Included the Harlem Renaissance
• Included Negritude
• Included Black Arts Movement Aligned Book Culture
• Included Cold War Anti-Racism and Transnationalism
• Included the rise of Black Studies

Xenogenesis Trilogy

• Dawn is the first novel in the Xenogenesis Trilogy. (True)
• Parts of Dawn, in order: Womb, Family, The Nursery, The Training Floor.
• Khaguyahat is an ooloi.

Neo-Slave Narrative

• Focused on the interiority of slave protagonists
• Has roots in the 1960s
• Filtered ideas of freedom through race, gender, and privilege

Thomas More's Utopia

• Published in 1516
• Satirized European society
• Set in the New World

Gothic Conventions

• Include castles and monasteries
• Include preoccupations with history and the past
• Include doubles, family secrets, and ancestry
• Include a focus on fear and the supernatural

Gothic Cusp

• Describes the intersection between romance and realism (False; the text says a different term)

Dystopian Fiction

• Hell is a type of dystopian fiction (False; the text says a different term)

Science Fiction

• Gernsback coined "scientifiction" in the 1920s
• Space opera emerged in Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories
• Technology became a significant focus of science fiction by the late 19th century (False; the text says otherwise)
• New Wave science fiction critiqued notions of progress (and other correct answers).

Lilith

• Figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish folklore (True)
• Reimagined by feminist scholars and artists in the 1970s
• Has a "print" (True)
• 14th-century definition of simulation: to deceive under false pretense (True)
• Simulacra: representation or imitation of a person or thing
• Jean Baudrillard identified 3 levels of simulation

New Journalism

• Popular from the 1960s to 1970s (True)
• Offered reportage filtered through the author's subjectivity (opposed to journalism's objectivity)
• Primarily a magazine genre rather than newspaper
• Employed literary techniques: metaphor, imagery, subjective narration, drama

Zora Neale Hurston

• Studied anthropology with Franz Boas
• "Color Struck" appeared in the literary journal Fire
• "Color Struck" explored colorism
• "Color Struck" won second place in a literary contest
• Featured a cakewalk competition

Literary Modernism

• Emerged from 19th-century Romanticism
• Featured experimentation with narration and perspective
• Demonstrated a tension between tradition and the new

Social Problem Fiction

• Focused on contemporary societal issues
• Flourished in Britain and France during the 19th century
• Has existed since the rise of the novel form

Other Notes

• Passing by Nella Larsen: Claire and Irene attempted to pass as white (True)
• H.P. Lovecraft: Born in Providence, Rhode Island (True). "The Horror at Red Hook" takes place in Brooklyn (False)
• "The Rats in the Walls": Characters move from England to Virginia to Massachusetts to England (False)
• T.S. Eliot: Born in St. Louis, Missouri (False)
• T.S. Eliot was heavily inspired by French symbolist poetry (True)
• One question was likely not fully addressed in the original material
• Joan Didion’s “The White Album” was named after a Beatles album (Fill in the blank)
• During the first Great Migration, African Americans left the South and moved to the North (Fill in the blank; the information was correct)

This quiz delves into significant literary movements such as the Black Arts Movement and Gothic literature. Covering key themes and historical contexts, it examines works like Thomas More's Utopia and the Xenogenesis Trilogy. Join to test your knowledge on these influential cultural narratives!