EH 224- Final Exam

Essentialist

"A Pair of Tickets"- parts of our personality and behaviors inevitable to happen based on the stereotype of who you are - She was bound to become this stereotype because she will become Chinese

mosquitos

"Dear John Wayne" they tried to get rid of them but it never worked (similar to Native Americans to Americans"

Government Cheese

"How to Date a Browngirl.." The cheese that as hidden in the story to keep the girls who he went on dates with from knowing his class or financial situation

Harry

"Kilimanjaro" main character in story that is dying and regrets the time he spent chasing after rich widows instead of writing more

"Lukewarm water"

"Kitchenette Building" It's what they only have to look forward to because they are poor and live in a building there is a community shower so they have to wait their turn

Ayah

"Lullaby" the main character who loses her kids to the BIA to go to Indian Boarding School and they are all Americanized

anthropromorphism

"Maus" the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object that make them seem like actual humans

American Standard

"My Grandma washes her feet in the sink" A toilet brand and By washing her feet in the sink, American women think that is gross and contaminating their clean sinks and culture by doing something sacred to Islam culture

Kevin Howard

"Orientation"- A characters how is praised for being a fast Typer but is also a serial killer and kills older white men

Mrs.Walker

"Persimmons" Teacher who hit the speaker for mixing up words in class and brought a Persimmon to class and called it a Chinese apple

Construtivist Theory

"Persimmons" our personality built socially through experience

Donna

"Persimmons"- the woman lover of the guy from persimmons who he taught Chinese

Maggie

"Recitatif"- the older bowlegged, mute, woman who was pushed down the stairs by the Gar Gar girls that lives at the orphanage that Roberta tried to blame Twyla for doing

Felice

"Woman Hollering Creek" who takes Cleófilas to San Antonio TX and yells each time she crosses the Hollering Creek Bridge who drives a pickup truck

Samson

(Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah

La Lloroan (wailing or weeping woman)

- a mad or haunted woman in search of lost (or dead) children - reasons for childrens death involves her male lover/partner - how children died is fuzzy but scary - often spotted at night envisioned/portrayed in white "Woman Hollering Creek"

Telenovela

A Spanish soap opera "Woman Hollering Creek"

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans "Lullaby"

"Chocolate Thunder"

A large black vibrator that the main character of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" that his wife waved over their baby and sang with at the hospital that they believed saved their baby's life

Sears

A large department store that the main character's Grandma was washing her feet for one of the 5 times she does in the Islam faith

2nd person narrator

A narrator that tells the story in which "you" is the central character "Orientation" -very Strict rules given to follow

Vladek Spiegelman

Art's father, grew up in pre war Poland, first wife Anja (In Poland in 1937). First child is a son (Richieu). After war Vladek and Anja moved to Sweden for two years. Moved to stockhome, have second child art. Second wife Mala. "Maus"

Harlem Renaissance

Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.

Orientation

Daniel Orozco

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

Gloria Anzaldua

"Kitchenette building" and "The mother"

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Going to Meet the Man"

James Baldwin

"Drown" and "How to Date a Browngirl"

Junot Diaz

"Dear John Wayne"

Louise Erdrich

My Grandmother washes her feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears"

Mohja Kahf

"Woman Hollering Creek"

Sandra Cisneros

"At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" and "Crow Testament"

Sherman Alexie

temporal setting

The era(s), year(s), season(s), day(s), and/or particular hour(s) in which a work of literature is set.

Chato

The husband of the woman who got fired and started having a drinking problem and sat in the snow with his wives because they were homeless and he eventually died "Lullaby"

"Recitatif"

Toni Morrison

memoir

an account based on the author's personal experiences "Maus"

Beat Poets

describes a group of authors who became famous in the 1950's. Composed of new experimentation with drugs and different types of sexuality. Followers were anti-war activists and peace promoters, similar to the hippie era "Allen Ginsberg"

-phile

lover of

Yunior

narrator of story, another avatar for Diaz - mixture of machismo/intellectualism "Drown"

Holocaust

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler "Maus"

Paternalism

the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest. "Dear John Wayne"

Anaphora

the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences "Howl"

Foreshadowing

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot "Orientation" -receptionist leave all the time then you find out why because everyone is crazy and there are ghosts

Anika Bloom

the women from "Orientation" that told people how they or their loved ones died