Question
This country’s plan to assimilate student writers from African colonies through the House for the Students of Empire backfired when those authors published poems demanding their countries’ liberation. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this European country. In A General Theory of Oblivion, a woman from this country shuts herself in an Angolan apartment for three decades immediately before Angola declares independence from this country.
ANSWER: Portugal [or Portuguese Republic] (A General Theory of Oblivion is by José Eduardo Agualusa)
[10h] The Casa dos Estudantes do Império published Pan-African literature in a periodical with this name. It shares this name with a patriotic Fernando Pessoa poetry book whose first section is structured around coats-of-arms.
ANSWER: Mensagem (“MEN-sah-jem”) [or Message]
[10m] The semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares comments, “It wouldn’t trouble me at all if Portugal were invaded or occupied, as long as I was left in peace,” in this “factless autobiography” published 47 years after Pessoa’s death.
ANSWER: The Book of Disquiet [or Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa]
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Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |