the literary canon - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Poe’s targetedly racist “Africanism” is contrasted with Hemingway’s "agenda-free" depictions in the book Playing in the Dark. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this concept that titles a work which contends that “originality must compound with inheritance” and in which politically motivated critics are grouped as “The School of Resentment” by Harold Bloom.

ANSWER: the literary canon [accept The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages]

[10e] Once noting that “canon building is empire building,” this author elevated writers like Chinua Achebe as the first black female editor of Random House. This author wrote The Bluest Eye.

ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Anthony Wofford or Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison]

[10h] This writer endorsed cultural pluralism in the canon, which he and Nellie McKay would contribute to as co-editors of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. This thinker is the host of the show Finding Your Roots.

ANSWER: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

<MC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	7	14.29	86%	29%	29%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	15.56	89%	44%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	17%	50%

Data


Ohio State D	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSD	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	Caltech	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Oberlin	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
Too much from you lately	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	0	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Billy's Bastion	10	10	0	20
Brown	BU	0	10	0	10
MIT	Lexington	0	10	0	10
Catholic University of America	NYU B	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	George Washington	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
CWRU	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Alberta	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University B	Arizona State University A	10	10	0	20
UW A	South Dakota School of Mines	10	10	10	30
UW B	Washington Connections	0	0	0	0
Claremont A	UCSB	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
Quatumvirate	Egypt Airlines Haters	0	10	10	20
we need new names	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	0	20
Mahjonng Masters	Goober Gang	10	10	0	20
Gruh	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	0	10
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
MSJ	Free Agents 1	0	10	0	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Auburn 2026	0	10	0	10
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	0	0	0	0
mongeese	evil women enjoyers	10	10	0	20
Cambridge	Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Lancaster	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
Guelph	Toronto E	0	0	0	0
McGill B	UBC	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Waterloo C	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	WashU Charmander	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Truman State	WashU Squirtle	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
LSE	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Warwick C	Birmingham	0	10	0	10