As part of a courtroom defense for a brother who steals a cop car, Older Brother claims that this place was always “a construction, a performance of features.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location that titles a 2020 novel in screenplay format about the actor Willis, who plays background characters in the police procedural Black and White.
ANSWER: Chinatown [accept Los Angeles Chinatown or LA Chinatown; accept Interior Chinatown; reject “Los Angeles” or “LA”]
[10m] Charlie aspires to become a dancer in a Jean Kwok novel titled for this genre “in Chinatown.” The brothers Cesar and Nestor immigrate to New York in an Oscar Hijuelos (“ee-HWELL-ohs”) novel titled for musicians of this genre.
ANSWER: mambo [accept The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; accept Mambo in Chinatown]
[10e] The Woman Warrior’s controversial claim to this genre is the subject of an essay titled for this genre “as Guided Chinatown Tour.” This genre includes Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
ANSWER: autobiography [or memoir; accept The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts; accept “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour”]
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