Reference no: EM133203490

Please Provide textual evidence to support all of the following: 

WEB DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk"

1.  Identify a passage that you believe best encapsulates the text's central message. Next, explain why you selected that passage. Finally, interpret the text's central message and explain its significance.

2. Identify language and/or events that reflect reflect the social and/or political climate the of the author's era. Additonally, how do these references reflect the socio-political climate today?

James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook" from The Fire Next Time

3. Identify a passage that you believe best encapsulates the text's central message. Next, explain why you selected that passage. Finally, in your own interpret the text's central message and explain its significance.

Brent Staples, "Just Walk on By"

4. Identify a passage that you believe best encapsulates the text's central message. Next, explain why you selected that passage. Finally, interpret the text's central message and explain its significance.

5. What tensions, ambiguities, or paradoxes concerning race, safety, and public space(s) arise in the essay? What is the significance of these factors? In other words, why does the author focus on tensions, ambiguities, and paradoxes in the essay and to what effect?

Audre Lorde, "The Fourth of July"

6. Identify a passage that you believe best encapsulates the text's central message. Next, explain why you selected that passage. Finally, interpret the text's central message and explain its significance.

7. What is the relationship between the essay's title and the essay's central message? Consider how Lorde's portrayal of her experience in Washington D.C. uses irony and imagery.

James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"

8. Identify a passage that you believe best encapsulates the text's central message. Next, explain why you selected that passage. Finally,  interpret the text's central message and explain its significance.

9. Baldwin loads his short story with imagery and symbolism. Identify and quote/cite one instance of imagery and one example of symbolism in "Sonny's Blues" and determine how these examples develop the story's overall theme (think about the use of music, performance, and instruments, for example).

Comprehensive Question

10. How can we use assigned literary works (Baldwin, Lorde, Staples, and Du Bois) to "map" the interplay of both traditional and subversive discourses circulating in the society in which the works emerge to better interpret African American literature and U.S. culture, politics, and history? Reference 1-3 assigned texts  (Baldwin, Lorde, Staples, and Du Bois) to support your answer.

Monkey Hunting-

1. In Monkey Hunting, how is the relationship between men and women portrayed? How does intersectionality of race, gender, and ethnicity impact the relationships between male and female characters?

2. Considering the characters Chen Pan, Domingo, Lucrecia, and Chen Fang. How is power and access to opportunities impacted by gender or the performance of gender?

3. In general, how are male and female gender roles defined by the characters and plot of Monkey Hunting? How do characters emboy these roles? How do they subvert them?

4. What does Monkey Hunting reveal about the operations of patriarchy on a local and global scale? What does Monkey Hunting reveal about the operations of patriarchy historically and today?

5. What does Monkey Hunting reveal about community, family, and/or sister/brother/personhood as a means of resistance to patriarchy and overall oppression?