MIDTERM Flashcards
(88 cards)
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Anowa
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Ama Ata Aidoo
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Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
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1970
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave:A True History
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Aphra Behn
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave:A True History
Aphra Behn
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1688
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Candide or the Optimism
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Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire]
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Candide or the Optimism
Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire]
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1759
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“The Social Contract”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The Social Contract”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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1762
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from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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1792
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“The Rights of Women”
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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Olaudah Equiano
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“The Rights of Women”
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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1795
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The Interesting Narrative of the LIfe of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano
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1789
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“An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”
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Immanuel Kant
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“AN Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”
Immanuel Kant
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1784
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“The Slave Ship”
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Heinrich Heine
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“The Slave Ship”
Heinrich Heine
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1854
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Anowa
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young woman who grows up
only child, not married, mother worries, marries Kofi Ako, hardworker, leaves Yebi, drowns herself
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Badua
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Anowa’s mother-worried about her daughter, complains at the beginning but cries at the end
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Kofi Ako
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Anowa’s husband, games, inherited land, did all the work then bought slaves then did nothing, begins to conform to the community, Anowa claimed he had become a woman, her man who expands
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Anowa historical context
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Bond of 1844
Great Britain and the Black Atlantic
Ama Ata Aidoo characterizes women in Ghana Society speparating stereotypes
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effects of slavery and capitalism
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Anowa
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Osam
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Anowas father, peacemaker between mother and daughter, feels Anowa should experience things to learn
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Old Man and Old Woman
community-split opinions
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Oroonooko is from
Coramatien present day Ghana
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Caesar was killed by his friends--> relates to
Oroonoko being betrayed by Byam and killed for leading slave revolt
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In ____________ the king steals Imoinda from her lover
Oroonoko or The Royal Slave: A True History
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Oroonoko kills Imoinda because
it is the only escape, they will reconcile in the afterlife, the power lies within their hands
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loyalty to the king, treason=worst thing you can do, betrayal leads to tragedy
Oroonoko, Aphra Behn loyalist to Charles I
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Narration in Oroonoko=
subjection narration-first person, unreliable at first, tries to get reader to share their side, one-sided view of the hero of the play
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spoke French/English, perfect ebony skin, The Black Prince, treated more like a governor than a slave
Oroonoko
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Caesar
Oroonoko's slave name
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Imoinda
Queen of Night, Old General's daugher, sold into slavery after Oroonoko tries to rescue her
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The King-Oroonoko's grandfather that
steals Imoinda from Oroonoko
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Aboan
Oroonoko's friend that helps him and likes Onahal
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Onahal
a servant in the king's court, former wife of the king, assists Oroonoko in his attempt to rescue Imoinda
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Trefy
befriends Oroonoko, good mathematician and a linguist, overseer, attempts to free Oroonoko and return him to Africa
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Trefy gave
Oroonoko the name Caesar
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Tuscan
helps Oroonoko organize the slave revolt and then betrays him
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verisimilitude
making something seem completely real when it is really fiction
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Caesar smokes a pipe
while he is being tortured and cut into pieces
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Candide or The Optimism
| Voltaire
1755 Lisbon earthquake, attacks the widespread idealistic system of philosophical optimism
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Candide or The Optimism=a parody of
romance
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Parody=
eluding ot something that already exists
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search for Cumnegonde for so long and then when he finally finds her he is not attracted to her
parody of romance
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Dr. Pangloss
Candide's teacher
| "best of all possible worlds"
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Anabaptist and Martin both resemble the
stress on individual experiences and judgment as the only true path to knowledge characterizes the Enlightenment's more general challenge to received wisdom and authority, as well as its reliance on the senses rather than the soul
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Dogmaticism=
feel like you have answer even before you have the answer; not reasoning through a problem; same response no matter what
Candide
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Turk-Farmer has a life of hardwork and simple pleasures
Candide copies this type of life to keep from the evils of need, vice, and boredom
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Cacambo
Candide's manservant that travels with him to Eldorado, morally honest, practical man of action, responsible for reconciliation of Candide and Cunegonde
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Cunegonde
daughter of the Baroness, enslaved and raped, satiric light on Candide's mad romantic passion for her
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Giroflee
monk forced into monestary to enlarge brothers fortune, Paquette's client
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don Issachar
wealthy Jew makes Cunegonde his mistress
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Pangloss
tutor, unrecognized by Candide and the Anabaptist
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The Grand Inquisitor
uses threat of religious oppression to force Issachar to share Cunegonde with him, is killed by Candide when he catches Candide and Imoinda together
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Jacques the Anabaptist
pessimistic but kind, drowns saving someone
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The Baron
Cunegonde's brother thought to be dead by Candide, comes back as Jesuit priest, refuses to allow Candide to marry his sister
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Paquette
prostitute, maid to the Baroness, syphilis
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the old woman (Candide)
maid to Cunegonde, former daughter to the Pope, raped by Pirates, enslaved, wise, practical, loyal, attempted suicide but always finds a reason to live
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Martin
old scholar, dogmatic, travel companion of Candide, meets in Surinam, took ship for Bordeaux with Candide, suffered much, pessimistic, flawed philosopher-has trouble seeing the world as it is expecting the worst
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
if enemy lies down weapon, no longer an enemy
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the general will
Rousseau
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Rousseau all about
individual freedom
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Rousseau is concerned with the question of government can be legitimate.
Slaves have no rights. Someone is doing the work while someone else is benefitting. "slavery and right" contradict each other
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Main contradiction of the Enlightenment
All men should strive for civil and moral liberty.
| ALL excludes women and slaves
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Mary Wollstonecraft was also a
journalist, novelist, political thinker, "mother of modern feminism"
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Believed Rousseau's ideas were good if
women were involved too
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Mary Wollstonecraft responded to
"The Social Contract" and conduct book
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Wollstonecraft believed the conduct book
cultivated ignorance, forced submission, made women silly and vain not by nature
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Anna Letitia Barbauld wrote "The Rights of Women" in response to
Mary Wollstonecraft's from "The Vindication of the Rights of Women"
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"Your best is to please"
| fruitless to "provoke war with the other sex"
Anna Letitia Barbauld
| "The Rights of Women"
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used satire in the beginning of her poem through
irony and sarcasm (exaggerations)
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Immanuel Kant
the lazier we are in thoguht, the easier it gets for people to take positions of leadership
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"An Answer to the Question: Whart Is Enlightenment?"
our relationship to our spiritual advisors, doctors, and teachers is we are minorities. We rely on them to guide us until we mature and no longer need them to tell us what to do or instruct us when to stand up for things.
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"An Answer to the Question: Whart Is Enlightenment?"
| Immanuel Kant
believed anyone could be a scholar if they would just have the courage to write and speak pulically about the things they believed to be a certain way
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invokes the discourse of sensibility that became central to abolitionist movements
The Interesting Narrative from the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano
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designed to move British Parliament investigating slave trading practices to sympathize with slaves as fellow humans and act to relieve their sufferings
Equiano
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Gustavus Vassa
Olaudah Equiano's slave name
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Daniel Queen
taught Olaudah Equiano how to shave, dress hair, read the Bible, explained passages, father-figure to Equiano
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Dick
Equiano's best interpreter, American boy 4-5 years older than Equiano, taught him about God
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Captain James Doran
captain of Charming Sally, bought Equiano, taught him how to navigate
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Captain Pascal
Equiano's former master that he wants to go back to London to find
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Heinrich Heine was an abolitionist that wrote
"The Slave Ship" his last poem
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Myrheer van Koek
supercargo, sought to make a profit on the slaves
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Doctor van der Smissen
doctor on the ship, fascinated with sharks
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ballad form, 3rd person narrator
"The Slave Ship" resembled love and happiness but was ironic to the situation and emotions towards the slaves
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The Epic Romance
the protagonist on a quest leaves the court and encounters adventures in the forst
A mystery resolved
aristocratic values which define courtly life
