AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Looking back through my journal, I was reminded of a prompt that asked us to cast the characters that appeared in one of the readings from Uncle Tom’s Cabin as actual celebrities. I didn’t choose that prompt at the time, because for whatever reason, I had a hard time creating visual images of UTC’s characters…
In The Bondswoman’s Narrative, Hannah tells of the portrait-lined drawing room in her master’s mansion with eerie qualities. His ancestor Sir Clifford De Vincent is said to have “ordered his portrait and that of his wife to be hung in the drawing room, and denounced a severe malediction…against any possessor of the mansion who being…
In Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Shange establishes a close connection between the moon and the concepts of both mystical womanhood and Blackness. These moon-related concepts converge in Indigo’s character. The repeated image of “a moon falling from her mouth” helps designate Indigo as a member of a special group of Black women who know “[their]…