Poe’s targetedly racist “Africanism” is contrasted with Hemingway’s "agenda-free" depictions in the book Playing in the Dark. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept that titles a work which contends that “originality must compound with inheritance” and in which politically motivated critics are grouped as “The School of Resentment” by Harold Bloom.
ANSWER: the literary canon [accept The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages]
[10e] Name this ancient Greek philosopher whose works Categories and Metaphysics were translated and commented upon by medieval Islamic scholars.
ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristoteles; accept On the Quantity of Aristotle’s Books]
[10e] Once noting that “canon building is empire building,” this author elevated writers like Chinua Achebe as the first black female editor of Random House. This author wrote The Bluest Eye.
ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Anthony Wofford or Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison]
[10h] This philosopher had the unknown philosopher Ustath translate Metaphysics and presented the first major efforts to introduce Greek philosophy to the Arab world through his treatise On First Philosophy.
ANSWER: al-Kindī [or Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī]
[10h] This writer endorsed cultural pluralism in the canon, which he and Nellie McKay would contribute to as co-editors of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. This thinker is the host of the show Finding Your Roots.
ANSWER: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
[10m] This Islamic philosopher, influenced by al-Fārābī, criticized Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in a book where he added induction and experimentation to the scientific method. He wrote a “floating man” thought experiment.
ANSWER: Ibn Sīnā [or Avicenna; or Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari]
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