9) 1980s, Jewish writings, postmodernism II

Question 1

Cultural background of 1980s

Answer 1

economic uncertainty, the oil crisis, Watergate, Vietnam War, yuppie culture, Ronald Regan, consumer culture

Question 2

Saul Bellow

Answer 2

The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt´s Gift

Question 3

Which book is a picaresque novel, about chaos in modern life, the ambiguous impact of the great American city?

Answer 3

The Adventures of Augie March

Question 4

Bernard Malamud

Answer 4

The Natural, The Assistant

Question 5

Which book is a novel about baseball?

Answer 5

The Natural

Question 6

Which author captures the difficulties faced by immigrants in America and also their dreams?

Answer 6

Bernard Malamud

Question 7

Which book is about a Jewish emigrant running a grocery store in Brooklyn?

Answer 7

The Assistant

Question 8

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Answer 8

Satan in Goray, The Slave, Enemies, a Love Story

Question 9

Philip Roth

Answer 9

Portnoy´s Complaint, Prague Orgy, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, Everyman

Question 10

Alice Walker

Answer 10

The Color Purple

Question 11

Leslie Marmon Silko

Answer 11

Ceremony, Storyteller

Question 12

Which author was a majure figure in the Native Americas Renaissance?

Answer 12

Leslie Marmon Silko

Question 13

Which book is a story of a wounded WWII veteran returning to Laguna reservation who suffers from alcoholism but is helped through native rituals?

Answer 13

Ceremony

Question 14

John Updike

Answer 14

Rabbit series, The Witches of Eastwick, Gertrude and Claudius, Terrorist

Question 15

John Barth

Answer 15

The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse

Question 16

William Gaddis

Answer 16

The Recognitions, J R, Carpenter´s Gothic

Question 17

John Ashberry

Answer 17

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

Question 18

Who was the most influential poet of America in the late 20th century?

Answer 18

John Ashberry

Question 19

Who was Gary Synder?

Answer 19

the poet laureate of the Deep Ecology, San Francisco Renaissance, close to the Beats, promoter of the Buddhist Spirituality

Question 20

The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt´s Gift

Answer 20

Saul Bellow

Question 21

The Natural, The Assistant

Answer 21

Bernard Malamud

Question 22

Satan in Goray, The Slave, Enemies, a Love Story

Answer 22

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Question 23

Portnoy´s Complaint, Prague Orgy, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, Everyman

Answer 23

Philip Roth

Question 24

The Color Purple

Answer 24

Alice Walker

Question 25

Rabbit series, The Witches of Eastwick, Gertrude and Claudius, Terrorist

Answer 25

John Updike

Question 26

The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse

Answer 26

John Barth

Question 27

The Recognitions, J R, Carpenter´s Gothic

Answer 27

William Gaddis

Question 28

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

Answer 28

John Ashberry