Question
Answer the following about authors who wrote about snow despite coming from countries where it rarely snows, for 10 points each.
[10m] This poet complained about describing “the imported alien experience of the snowfall” in the lecture “History of the Voice.” This Barbadian poet coined the term “nation languages” and wrote Born to Slow Horses.
ANSWER: Kamau Brathwaite [or Edward Kamau Brathwaite]
[10e] This author’s poem “Snow in Paris” calls it a “white death” that “burns worse than salt” and compares it to colonizers. This president of Senegal and Négritude poet wrote Ethiopiques.
ANSWER: Léopold Senghor [or Léopold Sédar Senghor]
[10h] This author wrote about the love between a journalist and a film actor in a novel that analogizes the white world to the title Memory of Snow and Dust. A prison memoir by this writer is addressed to an imagined interrogator named “Mr. Investigator.”
ANSWER: Breyten Breytenbach (The memoir is The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |