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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
2. What does Gilroy say is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?
3. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
4. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
5. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
Short Essay Questions
1. What idea was undermined, in Richard Wright's mind, by the violence of modern American culture?
2. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?
3. Why was Wright criticized for his characterizations, according to Gilroy?
4. How does Gilroy say the discussion he has had in 'Black Atlantic' is likely to help in the twenty-first century, when Western culture faces challenges over resources and sustainability?
5. What did DuBois argue was the only way to deal with the brutality of modern civilized life in the South?
6. Describe the pan-Africanism movement which Richard Wright was part of.
7. What origin legitimized Richard Wright in readers' eyes?
8. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?
9. What, in Gilroy's account, was Richard Wright's thinking about racial identity?
10. What was Richard Wright's feeling about white culture?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gilroy proposes black music as a model of a cultural form that gives people courage to live with the contradictions and negotiations of racial life. In what way is Gilroy's book itself musical?
Essay Topic 2
Does Paul Gilroy use contradictions or paradoxes to define the black Atlantic? Citing examples from the text and from the texts he cites, make an argument about whether the cultural forms and trends Gilroy describes are meant to be reconciled, or whether they are meant to persist in pregnant opposition.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate your own reading of The Black Atlantic--did you resist it or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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