AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly is a modern day masterpiece. The album is archived in the library of congress, taught in college courses around the world, and it is forever engraved in black history. Lamar, commonly known as a rap and hip-hop artist, uses Jazz to root To Pimp a Butterfly and take modern…
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 Harriet Jacobs’, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs utilizes diction in an isolated moment to construct the hostile relationship between a slave and her master. Jacobs frames a longer exchange between Dr. Flint and Linda, actively transitioning from dialogue into the narrative form where the reader is guided towards the diction. …
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]…
Shange uses repetition throughout her narration of Indigo in a way that exudes reflection of the reader. Shange consistently takes the reader on the journey through Indigo’s mind and ends each sequence with “the South in her”. She allows the reader to picture themselves in Indigo’s world, learning from her imagination. When presented with, “the…