ENG 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jim Crow Laws, Richard Dyer, Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
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The first exam will consist of 50 multiple-choice questions. The exam will be broken into two sections: Section 1: general questions (25 questions, 2 points each) You are responsible for knowing the following general information: Folklore & ethnic notions (film watched in class) Definitions of specific stereotypes: jim crow, sambo (laughing, happy black man), zip. Coon (image of failed attempt at assimilation), mammy (overweight & asexual, loyal servant, domineering only at home), jezebel (animal-like sexuality, manipulative, promiscuous, seductive), the brute; definition/practice of blackface minstrelsy. Pros and cons of printing oral traditions; pros and cons of using dialect. Definition and examples of a trickster figure; stereotype (richard dyer def) vs. archetype. Historical contexts: cult of true womanhood, fugitive slave law. Prefaces, epigraphs, frontispieces (which texts use them, who wrote them, why) Four phases of the slave narrative (1: loss of innocence, dehumanization; 2: resolve to free oneself; 3: escape; 4: success, join cause for abolition); literacy vs. force; freedom vs. agency.
