ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An aged former slave, Uncle Julius McAdoo serves as the folk narrator in the stories of Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman (1889).

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.

Detailed explanation-3: -Uncle Julius is a character from the Saturday Supercade episode Gorilla Ghost. He is Donkey Kong Jr.’s uncle who lives in a city zoo. He first appeared at the beginning of the episode to explain to his nephew and Bones about the Gorilla Ghost.

Detailed explanation-4: -The House Behind the Cedars, a full-length novel, was published in 1900, and Chesnutt’s devastating fictionalized account of the Wilmington Coup and massacre of 1898 appeared as The Marrow of Tradition, in 1901.

Detailed explanation-5: -Julius is an old black man who tells John and Annie the story of the goophered grapevine. Julius was born and raised on the McAdoo plantation and claims to know exactly what happened there. He is described as tall and “venerable-looking, ” and quite vigorous in spite of his years.