Answer the following about Black seamstresses in American literature, for 10 points each.
[10e] This author examined a quilt as an example of unrecognized Black art in her essay collection In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. She also wrote The Color Purple.
ANSWER: Alice Walker
[10m] The seamstress Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley wrote a slave narrative that ends with her working for this family. A “bronzed, lank man” from this family “Walks at Midnight” in a poem by Vachel Lindsay.
ANSWER: Lincoln [accept “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”]
[10h] The seamstress Esther is scammed by George in this author’s play Intimate Apparel. This author of Sweat depicted Congolese women escaping civil war in her 2009 play Ruined.
ANSWER: Lynn Nottage
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