Question

A playwright with this surname was inspired by her grandmothers for the characters Aure and Hermance in her play Island Memories. An author with this surname who worked with André Breton wrote "1943: Surrealism and Us" and "The Great Camouflage." A character in a play by an author with this surname states “I hate that image… and it's false” after plotting a revolution. With René Ménil, a husband and wife with this surname published the journal (*) Tropiques. The instruction “call me X” appears in a play by an author with this surname that includes the god Eshu and the “mulatto slave” Ariel. A poem by that author with this surname repeats “at the end of daybreak” and was from the Negritude movement. For 10 points, give this surname of the author of A Tempest and Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. ■END■

ANSWER: Césaire [or Aimé Césaire; or Suzanne Césaire; or Ina Césaire]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cindy GaoHarvardMIT11710
Jason HongBrownBrandeis12010

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y2100%0%0%118.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y771%43%0%66.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%87.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y250%0%50%115.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%0%0%98.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%107.33
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%33%105.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%88.00