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| idn’t make a living as a novelist, so turned to writing motion pictures |
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| stabbed in neck in 1944, probably due to scandalous and immoral themes in books that were banned from Arab countries |
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| What story is this? Narrator is sick and cannot be healed, so his father suggests that he go on a quest to find him. He asks many vendors and Shiekh’s but no one can tell him where he is and everyone leads him to a new visit. Finally he meets Mr. Wanas and passes out from drunkenness. When he wakes, he is wet and Wanas tells him that the healer tried to wake him. He tells him that the healer will only meet him if he can feel his love for him. |
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“I was in a state of deep contentedness, of ecstatic serenity” |
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“Do not give in to defeat. This extraordinary man brings fatigue to all who seek him. It was easy enough with him in the old days when his place of abode was known. Today, though, the world had changed, and after having enjoyed a position attained only by potentates, he is now pursued by the police on a charge of false pretenses. It is therefore no longer an easy matter to reach him, but have patience and be sure that you will do so” (888). |
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| Author of The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid |
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What story is this? The narrator of the story who is an aged villager that has lived always in that village. People used to call him “the crocodile”.
The listener or guest who comes from another city. He listens to the words of the narrator.
Wad Hamid- the town’s saint who appeared in people’s dreams. He used to be a slave. The story says that a voice took him to where now the famous three is. |
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| What story is this? The tree seems to have a spell over the town which stops outsiders who come trying to modernize the small village. The people who attempted to build a station and cut the tree for a steamer all failed. The villages also have dreams with the tree which are interpreted to foresee the future. |
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| To which story does this quote belong? “When…the number of young men with souls foreign to our own increases, then perhaps the water-pump will be set up and the agricultural scheme put into being- maybe then the steamer will stop our village” (824) |
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| To which story does this quote belong? Tomorrow you will depart from our village, of this I am sure, and you will be right to do so.” |
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| Author of "The Women's Swimming Pool" |
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| She was raised in southern Lebanon by a Shiite family |
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| Lived in London and Saudi Arabia. Divorced parents |
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| attended traditional Muslim girl’s school |
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| To which story does this character belong? young orphan from a small Lebanese town, accustomed to covering her head and wearing long-sleeve clothing |
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| The Women's Swimming Pool |
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| Name the title of this work. A young girl raised in a extremely traditional Lebanese town wants to go to a women’s swimming pool in Beirut that she has heard about from her friend at school. Her grandmother, who has raised her, accompanies her on the bus and on a journey that eventually leads them to the pool. During the process, the girl feels out of place with her traditional clothes and old-fashioned grandma, and seems to want to become more modern. |
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| To which story does this quote belong? “I would have liked to persuade myself that she [the grandmother] had nothing to do with me, that I didn’t know her. How, though? She’s my grandmother whom I’ve dragged with my entreaties from the tobacco-threading tent, from the jagged slab of stone, from the winds of the South…” |
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“I find myself dreaming and growing thirsty and dreaming. I open the magazine: I devour the words and surreptitionsly gaze at the pictures.” |
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| Where was Mahmound Darwish born? |
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| Birweh, a village in Palestine |
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| Authored the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. |
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| Died due to complications during open-heart surgery in Houston, Texas. |
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| The main characters of this texts are the narrator and the “you” that robbed the narrator of his homeland. |
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| The poem concerns the exile of the Palestinians from the land they call their home. |
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| Throughout the poem, the narrator describes his physical characteristics to create an image of the collective body of the exiled people |
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| The narrator shifts to an accusatory tone in the penultimate stanza as he addresses the “you” that caused his people so much distress. |
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| In the final stanza, the narrator adopts a vengeful tone warning that he will “eat the flesh of his usurper.” |
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| To which story does this quote belong? “Put it on record.” |
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| To which story does this quote belong? “My roots/ Took hold before the birth of time…” |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in ___________. Where did he later moved to |
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| Wurzburg Germany. Then moved to Palestine |
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| Israeli poet best known for liberating Hebrew |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Served with Jewish Brigade in WWII |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Served with the Palmach (elite Jewish Army) during the Israeli War of Independence |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Secondary school teacher of Hebrew literature and the Bible |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Which is this text? a. As children it seems God takes care of us, as we grow it feels like life gets harder. But maybe God watched over lovers (lovers could also mean Jerusalem) and maybe we should too so that we can be “protected” |
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| Which is this text? b. In Jerusalem there is the Old City which is the walled portion of Jerusalem, around which the new city has been built. A man sees the laundry of those on the other side of the wall and a kite. (The simple on goings of life). Flags are put up on each side of the walls to show or act as though everything is ok on this side of the wall. |
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| Which is this text? c. Tourists come to visit and it feels like something they do just to “show” concern especially for the history of the town. What instead they need to “see” is that the people here are more important than just symbols of history. |
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| Which is this text? d. On one mountain an Arab shepherd searches for his goat, on the other mountain a Jewish father searches for his son. None wants anything bad to happen to who they search for and they each acknowledge their own mistake – losing goat/kid. But in finding them the precious joy of life and reunion is shown. |
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| An Arab Shepherd is Searching for his Goat on Mount Zion |
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| Who wrote this ? “God has pity on kindergarten children…less on school children…grownups he has no pity” |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Who wrote this?“…sitting around the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious face….laughing behind heavy curtains….” |
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| Who wrote this? “At the other end of the string a child I can’t see because of the wall” |
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| Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) |
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| Author of "The Road to Salvation" |
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| Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Srivastava) |
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| Marriage Trouble - Premchand’s father arranged his marriage to an incompatible girl causing him to move away on his own. Later, this wife attempts suicide and Premchand re-marries a widow (big deal in India) |
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| Persisted his dream to study Urdu literature despite debt, supporting his family, and difficulty enrolling in higher education. Had to work his way up to obtain degrees. |
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| Served as first President of Progressive Writers Association, a Socialist organization that transformed literature, art, politics, etc. across India (1930s-1960s) |
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| The main characters of this story are Jhingur (a farmer) and Buddhu (the shepherd) |
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| Title and author of this work. Jhingur has a farm and Buddhu is leading his sheep near his farm to save time then Jhingur beats his sheep. To get revenge, Buddhu burns his sugar cane crop which has big consequences for the whole village, now everyone is mad at Jhingur and he becomes poor. Buddhu then becomes rich with a big house. Jhingur plots with a tanner to set Buddhu up for killing a calf (bad crime, like murder). Buddhu punished to pay, beg on streets, feed Brahmans. In the end, both are poor and work and eat together, sort of forgiving each other for what they did. |
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| Who wrote this ? “To take vengeance on a farmer is easier than slicing a banana” |
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| Who wrote this? What is its meaning? “When Mother Lakshmi comes men don’t see so clearly” |
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| Premchand. Meaning - Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, so when someone has much wealth, their judgement is clouded and wealth influences their decisions. |
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| Pakistan (India Before the Partition) |
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| Socialist; Stayed in Bombay while his family moved to Pakistan because he could not decide if India or Pakistan was his homeland |
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| Writings were banned by the government because they could mobilize Socialist causes; Writings were banned by the government because they could mobilize Socialist causes |
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| This story takes place during the Partition of India and Pakistan. It revolves around an insane asylum and leads up to the transfer of the inmates to either Pakistan or India. What story is this? While the story focuses on Bishan Singh, it briefly describes the oddities of the other inmates. |
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You don’t answer my prayers because you are a Muslim God. Had you been a Sikh God you would have been more of a sport.” |
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| Title of this story. Sultana is not making enough money in this new place she has moved to (Delhi) where she is being paid less than half her rate. Sultana lives with Khuda Baksh a photographer and her lover who she met in Ambala, he provided Sultana with a “steady flow of customers,” the British soldiers that he would take pictures of in Ambala, he was the one who decided to move to Delhi and brought Sultana with him. However Sultana is miserable there, she isn’t having business and is struggling to keep a living, she tires to convince Khuda Baksh to go back to Ambala but he refuses. The month of Moharram was coming up and she had no money to buy black clothes, this prompted her to do business with Shankhar, man she found staring at her from outside, she asked him to get her a black shalwar and he in turn asked for her earrings. In the end, Shankhar gets her the black shalwar but when she goes to pick up her clothes from being dyed she finds her friend Mukhtar is wearing her earrings, showing that Shankhar has swindled both Sultana and Mukhtar. |
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| Quote from “Never had she been so moved by the sight of trains.” |
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| Born into a high-caste Hindu family; her father was a Bengali poet/novelist, and her mother was a writer/social worker |
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| completed her graduate studies after divorcing her husband; later pursued writing, journalism, and activism full-time in 1984, advocating against oppression in India |
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| Her husband (Bijon Bhattacharya) was heavily preoccupied with his theater work, but didn't have a salary to show for it; She lived in poverty and near-starvation, eventually developing glandular tuberculosis as a result (she ended up working to support herself, later divorcing her husband) |
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| the husband of Giribala, who pays his marriage dowry with money that isn't his, sells his dowry gift of bamboo for money, and “marries” his daughters into prostitution. Who is this character? |
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| Aulchand's “trickmaster” who convinces him to “wed” his daughters to human traffickers. Who is this character? |
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| What is this story? Girl's father marries her to Aulchand, but he is completely oblivious to Aulchand's devious ways. Aulchand had no land or home of his own, and as a result the girl has to work at the Babu house in order to support herself through meals. Four girls are born between the two of them, and one day the main character goes home, and discovers that her daughter had been married to a strange man elsewhere. After her second daughter is married deceitfully to a recently-released criminal, she takes the rest of her children and runs away. |
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| Author of One Out of Many |
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| Indian descent, raised in Trinidad |
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| Who is this character? He is a man that wants to live the American dream, moves to Washington with his employer and starts a new life there. |
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| Santosh from One Out of Many |
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| Who is this character? Restaurant owner that hires Santosh as his chef, and gives him a place to live. |
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| Priya from One Out of Many |
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| What story is this? One day, Santosh’s employer was transferred to Washington, so Santosh left Bombay and went with him. The lifestyle in Washington was very different than Bombay, and Santosh does numerous things the readers see as comical. Santosh felt living with his employer was a burden, so he began working for Priya as a cook in his restaurant. Because Santosh was illegal he was very nervous, so Priya suggested that Santosh marry with the hubshi woman that worked on his floor. Santosh became a legal citizen. |
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| “I understood that because I had escaped from my employer I had made myself illegal in America. At any moment I could be denounced, seized, jailed deported, disgraced." quote from |
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| “An one day, when I wasn’t even thinking of escape, when I was just enjoying the sights and my new freedom of movement, I found myself in one of those leafy streets where private houses ahd been turned into business premises" |
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| Author of Midnight's Children (The Perforated Sheet) |
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| Born to a wealthy Muslim business family in Bombay, British India 1947 |
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| religious decree for murder. Salman Rushdie for writing the Satanic Verses |
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| hid underground with protection from the British Secret Service for over a decade |
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| Narrator and protagonist of Midnight’s Children. Born at midnight on India’s Independence Day, he feels his fate is tied to the country. |
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| Protagonist of The Perforated Sheet; Saleems’ grandfather. A doctor previously trained in Germany, he is repeatedly summoned to Ghani’s house to cure his ailing daughter. |
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| A mysterious old boatman who summons Aziz for Ghani. Long adored by Aziz for his “magical” and incessant talk, Tai is considered strange and belligerent by the people. |
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| The daughter of Ghani. Consistently ill, though never by the same illness, she encounters Doctor Aziz countless times but is always veiled by a sheet (as is Muslim custom). |
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| What story is this?Grandfather Aziz (in Kashmir 1915) is praying in attempt to reconnect with some deeper notion when he bumps his nose on the ground and bleeds. He loses his concentration and his connection to the peace he was searching for. Gradually, the “hole” that came from this is filled by his encounters with the woman through the perforated sheet. |
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| Quote from “…the perforated sheet as something sacred and magical, because through it he had seen the things which had filled up the hole inside him…” |
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| Quote from “…the perforated sheet as something sacred and magical, because through it he had seen the things which had filled up the hole inside him…” |
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| daughter of a maritime engineer and an independent woman of revolutionary sympathies.” |
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| Studied law briefly at Tsarskoe Selo where she met her husband Nikolai Gumilyov. Then moved to St. Petersburg to study literature. |
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| many of her friends were imprisoned and died. Her son was imprisoned to punish her for her disloyalty. |
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| rejected the romatic, quasi-religious aims of the russian symbolism and values calirt, concreteness, and closeness to earth. |
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| Where is this quote from? “You are my son and my horror” |
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| Where is this quote from? And may the melting snow stream like tears” |
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| Author of “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” |
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| squad that unloaded trucks of Jewish prisoners and sent them to either work camps or gas chambers |
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| What story is this? Story begins with the narrator eating breakfast with Henri when news comes that a transport is arriving. Henri invites the narrator to come along with him (this is how they are able to get food) and he accepts. He sees the worst during this procession of trucks arriving- dead infants, rotting women and men, trucks full of stuff exploding out, even women rejecting their children. After seeing the trucks, his camp seems like heaven. |
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| “It is camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity” quote from |
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| “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” |
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| Author of Garden of the Forking Paths |
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| Spent WW1 in Geneva; afterwards moved to Spain where he associated with Ultraists, founding an Argentinian group with the same moniker upon his return to his homeland. |
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| Person who studies Chinese culture. Garden of Forking Paths |
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| “It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warning or omens, might be that of my implacable death.” |
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| “Then I reflected that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.” |
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| Author of House Taken Over |
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| Father abandoned the family and he was sickly most of his young life; born in Argentina |
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| Was briefly imprisoned for political activates against the rise of dictator Juan Peron while he was teaching French at the University of Cuyo |
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| Siblings live in a house together that is being taking over by someone or something. They casually allow it to take over parts of the house, until they are forced to leave everything behind. The reader never finds out what's taking over the house. |
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| Author of Death Constant Beyond Love |
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| Studied law but later became a journalist and correspondant for several Latin American newspapers. |
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| 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature- in acceptance speech, spoke out for those suffering in Latin America in midst of dictatorships, civil war, nuclear arms conflict. |
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| described as the most beautful woman in the whole world. Her father Nelson Farina, notices that the Senator takes a fancy to her and so offers her to the Senator as a bribe. |
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| lives in the town and every year the Senator comes to campaign there, he begs the senator to help him get a “false identity card, which would place him beyond the reach of the law (990).” |
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| corrupt politician running for re-election. Reads Marcus Aurelius, which influences his perspective on the imminence of death and the vanity of life in relation to death. Forced to embrace this philosophy when he discovers he only has six months and eleven days to live at opening of story. |
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| Moved to New Jersey at the age of six. |
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| Didn’t know a word of English when he first went to school |
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| Worked his way through college at Rutgers and received a masters from Cornell |
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| Helped form the poetic movement called infrarealism. |
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| Died at the age of 50 due to a liver ailment. |
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| Often wrote in the political sphere, aligned with left wing politics against dictatorships in Chile. |
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| ROBERTO BOLANO WAS BORN IN |
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| WHAT STORY IS THIS? After entering a writing competition, a young Chilean author comes into correspondence with an experienced Argentinian writer who had also entered the competition. The two men use each other for finding writing competitions and in the process become friends and learn of each other’s life. Eventually, Sensini moves back to Argentina and the communication between the two stops. Sensini’s daughter visits the narrator some years later to inform the man that Sensini has died after a vain attempt to learn the truth behind his missing son. |
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| Where was Albert Camus born? |
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| Contracted tuberculosis at 17, yet he died in a car accident |
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| definition of pied noir and author associated with this term |
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| (Literally black feet) French who lived in French Algeria before independence; Albert Camus |
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| rose from dire poverty to international fame as a philosopher, novelist, dramatist, and political analyst, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957.In the struggle of Algeria for independence from France, he managed to be sympathetic to both factions |
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| In its original language (French), the title of this story has two meanings. One of them is "the host". What is this story? |
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| The Guest by Albert Camus |
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| In this story an Arab prisoner is brought to a teacher (Daru). |
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| Author of Chike's School Days |
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| Where was Chinua Achebe born? |
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| Author of Things Fall Apart, an African classic |
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| his father a teacher for the Church Missionary Society) and African customs (his mother and sisters telling the traditional Igbo stories |
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| In the story we learn in the story of the Osu caste is one of the practices outlawed by the Christian Churches who enter Nigeria. This act caused his newly converted mother to renounce her own conversion to Christianity. |
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| Chike's school days by Chinua Achebe |
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| Where was Niyi Osundare born? |
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| He was born in Western Nigeria |
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| Author of "Our Earth Will Not Die", "Ambiguous Legacy", "The World Is an Egg", "People are my Clothes", "A Modest Question" |
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| Bilingual writer (English and Yoruba); Wrote poetry for Africans and criticized the corrupt regime; His father was a cocoa farmer and his mother a weaver; left deaf by attack; teacher now at the University of New Orleans |
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| "Our earth will see again this earth, OUR EARTH" quote from |
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| Our Earth Will Not Die by Osundare |
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| "This conquering tongue whose syllables launch a thousand ships" quote from |
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| Ambiguos Legacy by Niyi Osundare |
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| Author of Wedding at the Cross |
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| Where was Ngugi Wa Thiong'o born? |
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| Which author worte a novel on toilet paper? |
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| These two authors explore the disastrous consequences for Africans of contact with the British |
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| Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
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| "I am married to... to... Wariuki...and he is dead" quote from |
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| ( Miriamu ) Wedding at the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
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| A key word scholars use talking about him is absurd, but one might qualify this as the Norton does on 2570. Other key words might be engagement, and revolt. These signify a strenuous and worthwhile attempt to make life choices that are vital, important, and concerned with preserving a kind of humanity that might get lost in systems and in institutions. |
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| Writes with Anthropomorphism |
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| Born a chief’s daughter and was in a royal household. |
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| A Ghanaian author. A transnational feminist. Has a lot of feeling and political interests of the women in her country. |
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| Born to a single mother. Mother used to be in an asylum. |
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| Suffered from symptoms of bipolar and schizophrenia. Born in South Africa |
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| We have a hero in this story, Sebembele, who stands by Rankwana, who he truly loves (it's worth mentioning that he met her only because Rankwana was arranged in a marriage to Sebembele's father.) |
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| Deep River by Bessie Head |
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| Mother aristocratic decent and father a government functionary (Egypt) |
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| Became director of Public Health in the Egyptian Ministry of Health and was dismissed after realeasing "Woman and Sex" |
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