Question
In a novel by Mat Johnson, Chris Jaynes leads an expedition to Tsalal, a land inhabited entirely by a black-skinned society originally from this novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1838 novel that ends abruptly as the title character encounters a giant shrouded figure whose skin “was of the perfect whiteness of the snow.”
ANSWER: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
[10e] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is this author’s only novel.
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10h] This book’s chapter “Romancing the Shadow” quotes the aforementioned scene as an example of how “figurations of impenetrable whiteness” often appear in American literature in response to an “Africanist presence.” This book was adapted from its author’s 1990 Massey Lectures.
ANSWER: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (by Toni Morrison)
<Will Nediger, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
Data
| In Search of Things Past | BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I would prefer not to | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | Team Name Think Detail | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Canadians | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |