Question
A collection titled for this place imagines a figure who accepts a “work of art on the basis of what he feels to be its affirmation… of American experience.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Ralph Ellison’s second essay collection is titled for “going to” what place? In the last paragraph of Huck Finn, Huck plans to “light out for” this place to avoid Aunt Sally’s plan to adopt him.
ANSWER: the territory [accept Kansas Territory or Indian Territory]
[10h] The first essay in Going to the Territory is titled for this figure. Daphne Brooks’s book Liner Notes for the Revolution presents its subjects as gender-swapped versions of this unassuming connoisseur, who inspires musicians to “play your very best wherever you are” from behind the stove at Chehaw Station.
ANSWER: the little man [or the little man at Chehaw Station; or the little man behind the stove]
[10e] Ellison adapted the “little man behind the stove” from a remark by a player of this instrument named Hazel Harrison. The subject of “The Weary Blues” plays this instrument.
ANSWER: pianos [accept pianoforte or fortepiano]
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