Question
This author’s life is retold through the accounts of his mother Rosa and his wives, Alethea and Setsu, in Monique Truong’s 2019 novel The Sweetest Fruits. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Greek-Irish writer who traveled to New Orleans, the Caribbean, and finally to Japan, where he collected Japanese ghost stories in his book Kwaidan.
ANSWER: Lafcadio Hearn [or Patrick Lafcadio Hearn or Yakumo Koizumi]
[10m] Hearn’s time in the Caribbean inspired this author to “tender [him] my redundant jug” in the poem “Statue of Lafcadio Hearn.” Caliban asks to be called X in this Négritude author’s postcolonial retelling of The Tempest.
ANSWER: Aimé Césaire [or Aimé Fernand David Césaire]
[10e] This author fictionalized Hearn’s resignation from the University of Tokyo in the novel Sanshirō. This Japanese author wrote Kokoro and I Am A Cat.
ANSWER: Natsume Sōseki [or Natsume Kin’nosuke]
<CM, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 20% | 20% |
Data
| Illinois Orange | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |