Shaqona Payne

Professor Haynes
Summer Session Term A
Mon & Wed
6:00-9:00

1. What were the major conflicts of World War II?

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World War II began in the 1939 when Britain and France declared
war after Germanys attack on Poland. This major conflict was
Hitler War. The war for greater East Asia was a major conflict
that began with the Japanese invasion of Chinese territory in
1931. The Chinese responded by defending their country of an
immense cost in lives.
What characterized the postwar period?
After World War II United States gained power struggle and was
potentially a powerful country in the war. The Soviets Union
attempted attack on other powers in the respective spears of
influence.
What were some of the crucial events in the struggle for black
liberations?
The decision in Brown verse Board of Education and the Rosa
Park situation, when she refused to give up her seat during the
years of segregation were two crucial events. Almost
immediately African American, impatient with the slow-moving
court system, took matters into their own hands. During the
year of 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. decided to boycott a local
bus line in Montgomery,
Alabama.
What were some of the major liberations movement in Africa
and Asia
Africa: In the year of 1952 a military revolution destroyed the
Egyptian monarchy, which had been strongly linked to British
interest. With building up Egypts economic and military taking
its place the military dictatorship had plenty concerns.
Asia: Destroying the American Pacific feet at Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese defeated the British at Singapore, took over their
positions in Burma and Malaya, and seized Indonesia from the
Dutch.
What issues are involved in the writing of holocaust literature?
The subject matter of the holocaust was seen as unfit for
literature or for art. Dealing with the experience of Jewish,
Gypsy, and other racial concentration camp inmates, as well as
with the experience of those interned or deported for political
reasons.
What were the major concerns of existentialism?
Existentialism is a sense of limitless ad therefore anxietyproducing human freedom. This philosophy emphasizes the
uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile

or indifferent universe, regards human existence as

unexplainable. Life for each human being is a series of situations
requiring choices and acts, the acts that one chooses determine
what ones major concerns are. However people must be aware
of the dreadful state of freedom that is their true state of
freedom that is their true state of existence.
7. How did Simone de Beauvior apply existentialism to feminism?
Feminism is define as a social theory and political movement
primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women.
While generally providing a critique of social relations, many
proponents of feminism also focus on analyzing gender
inequality and the promotion of womens rights, interests, and
issues. Beauviors major point that relates to existentialism is the
theme of the self that attempts to impose itself on the world
through free choice and the other whose judgment it seeks and
tears. She believes that a woman has always encountered
barriers to the assertion of their individuality and freedom.
8. How do existentialist themes appear in the writing of Camus,
Ellison, and the beats?
Camus refused to call himself ad existentialist. Camus
demonstrates his contempt for the absurd the fundamental
meaninglessness of human life and traditional beliefs. He
believes the human mind demand reason, logic, order and
explanation for the way things are, but the world after none.
Individuals must then create their own morality, their own way of
resisting the absurd. Ellison relates to existentialist in the
theme of an urban black who deliberately tries to manipulate
desires and fantasies of whites and blacks to his own advantage.
Although the protagonist believes in the most of these roles at
the time, each one disappoints him because they fail to take into
account the complexity of his individual existence. The Beat
organized themselves in the mid 1950s, which pushed themes to
a extreme, both in form and in content. This was self expression
from ones individuality.
9. What were the primary characteristics of theater of the
absurd?
Theater of the absurd was a term used to refer to a set of plays
written primarily in France the mid 1940s. In these plays, the
dramatists used illogical situation, unconventional dialogue and

minimal plots to express the apparent absurdity of human

existences.
10.
What was a Charlie Parkers contribution to Jazz?
A new style of Jazz was created, practically in reaction to the
musical refraction of swing, and practically as a result of the
emerging freedoms and greater equality of black Americas.
Charlie Parker was the embodiment of all the pent up frustration
of black American after the war, a man who represented the
crowning achievement of African Americans. The style he
created was bebop and pop as it became known, broke with the
tradition that had kept jazz tried to dance to music and the
popular songs. Charlie contributes the new style of bebop which
continued to evolve as the country emerged from World War II.
11.
What were some of the major trends in postwar paintings
and sculpture?
The sense of the absurd, the feeling of alienation from society
and the emphasis on individual self expression were manifest in
visual arts. Action painting was the product of many factors
which was known as abstract expressionism. The painters whose
work is commonly described by the term were a most
heterogeneous group of individual and lumping them together
seems presumptions. Postwar sculptures constructed sculptures
that is, work made from metal, wood, and other materials
welded, bolted, or wired together began to assume great
importance as a way of working, in addition to the transitional
method of cast bronze or craved stone.

1. How does Fanon characterize violence in the colonial situation?

What are the causes? What roles does it play?

Fanon condemned colonialism in the most bitter terms and

advocated violence in its most extreme form to confront this
plague. In his words, colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a
body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its most
natural state and will only yield when confronted with greater
violence. The causes were the conflicts and hostility of the four
decades leading up to the war Militarism, alliances, imperialism,
and nationalism which also played major roles in the conflict as
well.
2. Would you call Fanon a Marxist?
Marxist is an economic and social-political worldview and method
of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a moralist
interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change,
analysis, and critique of development of capitalism. Many of
Fanon ideas, such as his analysis of the role of the political part
have anticipated or inspired extensive academic discussions. So,
yes in my opinion I would consider Fanon a Marxist.
3. What does Fanon have to say about European humanism and
the values of the enlightenment?
When he searches for man in the technique and the style of
Europe, he only sees a succession of negation of man, and an
avalanche of murders.
4. Does Fanons rejection of the Europe tradition strike you as
justified?
I personally believe that his rejections are justified. I believe that
his intentions are to better humanity and mankind. He believes
that we should work together and create new concepts and start
off fresh and lead into a new direction.