AADS/ENGL 3328.01
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…
“‘I am sassafrass/my fingers behold you I call upon you with my song you teach Me in my sleep/i am not a besieger of yr fortress/i am a crusader/for you are All my past/i offer you my body to Make manifest yr will in this dungeon Of machines & carolina blues/i wanna Sing yr joy/&make…
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…
What made UTC so politically potent? It’s delicate appeal to our common humanity.
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,…