Terms

Question 0

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 0

The Artistic Movement of African American Culture in Harlem
>Music
>Theater
>Literature

Question 1

Georgic Tradition

Answer 1

Life Style of Rural/ Agricultural Communities

Originated from the Greek term for Agricultural

Question 2

Primitivism

Answer 2

An incorporation/ obsession with a minority group’s culture.

i.e. African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance

Question 3

The Talented Tenth

Answer 3

An elite group of African Americans that consist of the “cultured” types, with background in modern medicine, the arts, etc.; and that they are bestowed the responsibility of inspiring fellow minorities.

Question 4

The American Dream

Answer 4

The possibility of upward mobility despite social class. In literature it is used as a tool to speak to the masses/ often also emphasizes it hollowness through critical analysis.

Question 5

Theater of the Absurd

Answer 5

Satirizes issues, so that the truth doesn’t seem so dim, when indeed it is morbid

Question 6

Scapegoating

Answer 6

• Fear of the Other
• Identifying the Other, creates the One.
• Targeting a specific group implies that minority having power.

Question 7

The Beat Generation

Answer 7

A generation who has been exhausted, defeated, BEAT.