Question
This author inferred a “hideous colonial aesthetic” from Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa and called it “one of the most dangerous books ever written about Africa.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who criticized Blixen’s portrayal of his home country. This author of The River Between advocated for the use of his native Gikuyu in Decolonising the Mind.
ANSWER: Ngugi wa Thiong’o (“n-GOO-gee”) [accept James Ngugi]
[10e] Jaqueline Bardolphe posited that Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat was a reading of Under Western Eyes, a novel by this author of Heart of Darkness.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]
[10m] Ngugi’s novel Petals of Blood takes its title from The Swamp, a poem by this author. This Saint Lucian winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote the epic poem Omeros.
ANSWER: Derek Walcott [or Derek Alton Walcott]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |