Packet 7: Bonus 9
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project collected thousands of texts in this genre that are a main source for novels in its “neo-” form. For 10 points each:
[10e] Novelists like Colson Whitehead have drawn on what genre of memoir written by Harriet Jacobs and Olaudah Equiano?
ANSWER: slave narratives [accept descriptions of memoirs or autobiographies about slavery; accept the WPA Slave Narrative Collection; prompt on autobiography]
[10m] This writer claims to have coined the “neo-slave narrative” for his novel Flight to Canada, which features a literal “flight” by plane. In a novel by this author, Black musicians in the 1920s spread the Jes Grew virus.
ANSWER: Ishmael Reed [or Ishmael Scott Reed] (The novel is Mumbo Jumbo.)
[10h] The author of this neo-slave narrative claimed that he wrote it from a one-sentence “historical footnote” while avoiding his accumulated books on slavery. This 2003 novel follows the Black slaveowner Henry Townsend.
ANSWER: The Known World (by Edward P. Jones)
<Editors, American Literature> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15.42 | 100% | 42% | 13% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Bruin | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Swarthmore | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Virginia Tech | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 15.42 | 100% | 42% | 13% |