Topic 11

Topic 1: American Literature After The Civil War

Topic 2: W.E.B. Du Bois And Effective Arguments

Topic 3: Logical Fallacies And The Progressive Era

Topic 4: Writing An Argumentative Essay

Topic 5: Modernism (Part 1)

Topic 6: Modernism (Part 2)

Topic 7: Identifying The Speaker In Modernist Poetry

Topic 8: The Lost Generation

Topic 9: The Southern Renaissance

Topic 10: The Harlem Renaissance

Topic 11: Postmodernism

Topic 12: Civil Rights And Multicultural America

1. What are the key characteristics of postmodernism?

Embrace of randomness, Playfulness, Fragmentation, Metafiction, Intertextuality.

2. What are social constructs?

Examples of social constructs include race, gender, nationality, childhood, madness, age, intelligence, and beauty.

3. What is the primary focus of the postmodern critical perspective?

To understand the specific meaning given by the author in a special way

4. Which characteristics of postmodernism are present within “A Supermarket in California”, and where are they present?

Capitalism, universal validity(Consumerism is ultimate US Dream), metafiction(price)

5. Can you explain the use of irony in Allen Ginsbergs New Stanzas for Amazing Grace?

Ginsberg criticize USdream by highlighting those unable to achieve

6. How did the narrator’s grandfather in “Invisible Man” change the narrator’s perspective?

opposing white orders is dangerous/not way of attaining respect. He think behaving by obaying white people he will be rewarded.

7. How is the narrator in “Invisible Man” invisible?

White people refuse to see him as an actual person.