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Activities: Overview Questions
• What kinds of narrative conventions structure oral and visual autobiographies? • What regional and ethnic dialects were represented in late-nineteenth-century literature? Why were dialect stories so popular in late-nineteenth-century America? • What are the distinguishing characteristics of realism? What cultural values does realism reflect and promote? • What is regionalist writing? What historical events and cultural anxieties fueled regionalism's popularity in the late nineteenth century? • In the popular imagination of the late nineteenth century, what distinguished certain regions of the country from one another? • In what ways can regionalist texts be representative of the general "American" experience? • How did technology bind together the United States in the late nineteenth century? • What is dialect? How did different authors represent dialect? • How do narrators affect the tone of a fictional text? What kinds of narrators emerge in realist writing of the late nineteenth century? • What is a trickster figure? What cultural work do trickster figures perform? • How do regionalist texts participate in or challenge racial stereotypes? • How does class-consciousness inflect realist representations of American life? What classes of people are depicted in realist texts? |
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