LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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She is one-quarter Black.
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She is one-eighth Black.
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She is White.
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She cannot be a slave.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity as well as the absurdities and cruelties of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Clotel marks the beginning of the “tragic mulatto” theme in African American fiction. The novel also denotes the beginning of the use by African American fiction writers of central American political events to dramatize the underlying hypocrisy of democratic principles in the face of African American slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Clotel, Brown depicts the suffering of the slaves as they endure family separation, sexual exploitation, and dehumanization. He also condemns Christian slave owners who, rather than embracing their fellow man, manipulate Christianity to oppress them for personal gain.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first published novel by a black American author combines real-life stories, including his own story of escaping slavery and recollections he heard while helping others escape, with abolitionist agitprop, revealing ephemera from the newspapers of the time, and sympathetic (if somewhat melodramatic) characters.