AADS/ENGL 3328.01
In the novel Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo, Ntozake Shange describes Cypress’s dream, where she envisions a matriarchal society that defines childbirth as a punishment and men as nothing more than sperm banks. Shange depicts Cypress dreaming of this perverted society in order to show the very possibility of it. Cypress can conceive of this happening…
The Adoration of the Christ Child was painted circa 1619-1621 by the Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst. It shows Mary and Joseph, as well as two angels, looking over newborn Christ. The light reflects off the faces of the onlookers, suggesting that the infant is the light source in this painting. Van Honthorst, who came…
Plot: Set in the early 1960s, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two men hired to herd sheep for the summer. These men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, develop a romantic and sexual relationship, but break apart at the end of the summer. They both eventually end up marrying women, but their relationship continues…
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,…