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] 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 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.
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