AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Hannah Craft uses knowledge of the Bible as a marker of a dangerous education for slaves, not connected to their ability to read or write, but due to the content of the material. The knowledge gained by slaves through the reading of the Bibles allows for slaves to find themselves within the narratives and put…
Shange utilizes dancing as another form of ritual for communing and remembering the ancestors. The expression of “love,” “adoration, ” and the “union of spirits” are attributed to dancing. There is no form or requirements, but the act of dancing is its own ritual for remembering the past, for embracing the present, and creating a…
Sacha Baron Cohen has now produced two satyr driven comedy mockumentaries in which Cohen uses this Borat character to explore an idea that is strongly held and challenge it. Borat (the first film) is about American society and attempting to identify what makes the US so “great.” An extension of this is Borat 2, which…