In 2016, Jesmyn Ward published an anthology whose title references this collection with the subtitle “A New Generation Speaks About Race.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this essay collection by James Baldwin that includes “My Dungeon Shook” and “Down at the Cross.”
ANSWER: The Fire Next Time (The anthology is The Fire This Time.)
[10e] Ward’s anthology, The Fire This Time, includes the poem “Theories of Time and Space,” which mentions a highway in this state. Salvage the Bones by Ward is set in this state, which is also the location of William Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha (“YOCK-nuh-puh-TAW-fuh”) County.
ANSWER: Mississippi (“Theories of Time and Space” is by Natasha Tretheway.)
[10h] The Fire Next Time includes a prose-poem titled for “[this word], AD” by Kima Jones. A novel titled for this word focuses on the half-sisters Effia and Esi and their descendants and is by Yaa Gyasi.
ANSWER: homegoing [accept “Homegoing, AD”]
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