Blackness, Performance, Freedom
The question I would like to explore is ” What kind of work does child-like wonder, imagination, and magic do in/for the film Guava Island? And specifically what kind of work does it do around the way the text imagine race, blackness, and freedom?”. I really enjoyed the film in itself, and its use of cinematic elements to…
I picked this prompt for us to think through because the use of imagination and magic in Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo are some of the most fascinating aspects of the text. Throughout the novel, the recurring motifs of magic and child-like discovery of the world serve as points of access into the minds and lived…
Childish Gambino’s “This is America” has been seen in two major iterations: in the song’s music video, released in May 2018, and in the film Guava Island, released in April 2019. Both are performed by Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover); in Guava Island it is performed by Glover’s character, Deni. The two performances resemble each…
Does the difference in genre and:or medium affect how we understand the dancing and lyrical performances of the music video “This is America” versus how we understand it in the film Guava Island? How? Or Why not? I wish to think through how the genre affects our understanding of the performances of “This is America” because…
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The question that was most interesting to me was what kind of work does child-like wonder, imagination, and magic do in/for the film Guava Island? And specifically what kind of work does it do around the way the text imagine race, blackness, and freedom? I think that this question is interesting and could inspire a lot of…
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Week One Journal Prompt In chapter 6 of Houston Baker’s seminal book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker suggests that we can think about the history of black resistance, especially black resistance through black expressive texts, as falling in one of two categories. Black resistance, Baker suggests (via a curious appeal to natural history), deploys as either…
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