My painting , your breath

The visual text… or moreover what I like to call “the imaginary” offers a contrasting take on reality when compared to the “real”. They complement one another and play off each other to develop meaning and a picture of reality. They are both a reality in one way or another… As they are the experiences…

Taking of Child or Taking of Humanity?

The proposition of motherhood is brought to the story line consistently throughout the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. However, Stowe’s depiction of being a mother through the lens of a white woman, and being a mother through the lens of a black woman during the times of slavery, are obviosuly incredibly distant…

Such Quick and Living Anguish

In the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe depicts how, for the enslaved woman, motherhood and despair are inextricable. Furthermore, Stowe shows how misery can be most palpable in silence, without the burdens of twisted language and logic. Stowe describes an enslaved woman on a south-bound boat with an infant child in her arms,…