Question
In a story from this collection, Josephine visits her mother, who was imprisoned for supposedly turning into a child-killing creature with wings of flame at night. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short story collection that alternates between Haiti and New York. Celianne throws herself and her baby into the ocean in this collection’s story “Children of the Sea.”
ANSWER: Krik? Krak! (by Edwidge Danticat)
[10e] Carlos hears stories about the soucouyant, a shapeshifting woman who turns into fire, in Elizabeth Nunez’s Caribbean retelling of this Shakespeare play. It was also adapted by Aimé Césaire.
ANSWER: The Tempest [accept A Tempest or Une Tempête] (Nunez’s novel is Prospero’s Daughter.)
[10h] In a Nalo Hopkinson novel, a woman named for this character dreams of a soucouyant devouring her baby. In a play, the ghost of a fetus helps this man, who captures a goat and burns down a sugarcane plantation.
ANSWER: Ti-Jean [or Petit-Jean; accept Ti-Jeanne; accept Ti-Jean and His Brothers; prompt on Jean or Little John] (The novel is Brown Girl in the Ring. The play is by Derek Walcott.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |