I’m working on a writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
1. In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” what does it mean “to be a problem”? When and how did the author become aware of this?
2. How does the author define “double-consciousness”?
3. What, according to the author, were the keywords (ideals and aspirations) after the Emancipation?
4. For these ideals to work, what needs to happen? What is the bigger ideal?
5. In “The Sorrow Songs,” how does the author define these songs and their meaning?
6. Why, in your opinion, were the Fisk Jubilee Singers so successful in England, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Switzerland? [For this question, consider also your answer to the previous question.]
7. What are the themes of the songs? Which themes are absent (or nearly absent)?
8. Which are the three gifts given to America?
9. How, in your opinion, is this text world literature? Explain your interpretation in the context of earlier texts we have studied and do so in a paragraph or two.
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