AADS/ENGL 3328.01
For my creative post, I decided to write some of my own versions of Indigo’s moon journeys/life recipes from the perspective of the grown up Indigo we see at the end of the novel. When reading Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, I found myself really missing Indigo’s spiritual and whimsical voice in the middle. I liked…
Reflection on Content What connections do you notice emerging across your journal entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions, corrections, reversals, or otherwise shifts in your perspective or reasoning between one entry and another? Or even within one entry? Compare your first entry, your 6th entry, and your last entry.…
The BondsWoman’s Narrative, by Hannah Crafts is a novel that was compiled by Henry Louis Gates (who purchased Craft’s manuscripts at auction); in the novel, Craft recounts her experiences as a young mixed woman (mulatto), who eventually gains her freedom. As the novel develops, the widespread effects of institutional oppression seem to extend beyond the…
I found this piece in McMullen. It is titled: Untitled by Omar El-Nagdi. The piece (with its natural colors and perfectly imperfect poignant shapes) is welcoming, safe, comforting, hopeful, realistic, natural, and simple while being incredibly powerful and meaningful. The piece flows and moves as I have said but to add onto this the piece…
Reflection on Content Describe a few of the connections you see between your different entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you notice any patterns? Do you find any tensions between your thoughts in one entry and your ideas in another? Are their contradictions in how you’re thinking in one entry and how you’re…