This author’s life is retold through the accounts of his mother Rosa and his wives, Alethea and Setsu, in Monique Truong’s 2019 novel The Sweetest Fruits. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Greek-Irish writer who traveled to New Orleans, the Caribbean, and finally to Japan, where he collected Japanese ghost stories in his book Kwaidan.
ANSWER: Lafcadio Hearn [or Patrick Lafcadio Hearn or Yakumo Koizumi]
[10m] Hearn’s time in the Caribbean inspired this author to “tender [him] my redundant jug” in the poem “Statue of Lafcadio Hearn.” Caliban asks to be called X in this Négritude author’s postcolonial retelling of The Tempest.
ANSWER: Aimé Césaire [or Aimé Fernand David Césaire]
[10e] This author fictionalized Hearn’s resignation from the University of Tokyo in the novel Sanshirō. This Japanese author wrote Kokoro and I Am A Cat.
ANSWER: Natsume Sōseki [or Natsume Kin’nosuke]
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