A) Who is the narrator of Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”? Is there an irony in the fact that Baldwin, who is black, wrote this story? What is the major conflict in the narrative and how else is irony presented? Is our narrator a hypocrite or do we learn that his behavior and views were taught to him in a legitimate way? (paragraph 1 250 words)
B) What are the settings, both time and place, of Morrison's story "Recitatif" and how and why are they significant? Does it matter when the story took place, or where? Also, what is the main struggle of the protagonist? Is she a sympathetic character? How is this story demonstrative of the postmodernist technique? (paragraph 2 250 words)
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