This novel opens with a dream sequence in which Van Go Jenkins stabs Mama to death after she calls him and his sister “human slough (“sluff”).” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel written under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh (“lee”). This novel draws from elements of Sapphire’s Push to satirize Juanita Mae Jenkins’s We’s Lives in Da Ghetto.
ANSWER: My Pafology [or Fuck; prompt on the novel-within-a-novel in Erasure]
[10m] Thelonious “Monk” Ellison receives unexpected acclaim for My Pafology in this author’s novel Erasure. A Daniel Decatur Emmett songbook frames this author’s 2024 reimagining of an 1885 novel.
ANSWER: Percival Everett [or Percival Leonard Everett II]
[10e] Everett won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his novel James, which retells the events of this Mark Twain novel from the perspective of Miss Watson’s slave, Jim.
ANSWER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [or Huck Finn]
<Steven Yuan, American Literature>