Question
In 2016, Jesmyn Ward published an anthology whose title references this collection with the subtitle “A New Generation Speaks About Race.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this essay collection by James Baldwin that includes “My Dungeon Shook” and “Down at the Cross.”
ANSWER: The Fire Next Time (The anthology is The Fire This Time.)
[10e] Ward’s anthology, The Fire This Time, includes the poem “Theories of Time and Space,” which mentions a highway in this state. Salvage the Bones by Ward is set in this state, which is also the location of William Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha (“YOCK-nuh-puh-TAW-fuh”) County.
ANSWER: Mississippi (“Theories of Time and Space” is by Natasha Tretheway.)
[10h] The Fire Next Time includes a prose-poem titled for “[this word], AD” by Kima Jones. A novel titled for this word focuses on the half-sisters Effia and Esi and their descendants and is by Yaa Gyasi.
ANSWER: homegoing [accept “Homegoing, AD”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 25% | 38% |
Data
| Columbia A | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |