AADS/ENGL 3328.01
As promised, please find the link to our final project below. If you choose to participate in this asynchronous activity, please let Hannah, Jason, and myself know! And make sure to fill out the feedback form at the end. Please also circulate to any and all of your social circles at BC, so we can…
For my creative post I decided to make a painting inspired from an MFA art exhibit featured earlier this year by Basquiat, a black street artist, combined with my interpretation of Indigo’s character in Cypress, Sassafrass, and Indigo. Basquiat was a part of the “neo-expressionism movement” and created art in the 80s in Manhattan. His…
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…
As I began to work on our final project for this class I found myself repeatedly wanting to turn to Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing. Lee plays the main character Mookie, a young, black delivery guy at the local pizzeria owned by Sal–an Italian-American. It takes place on one block in the…
For my creative post, I chose to curate a playlist that represents some of the themes and conversations that resonated with me the most from our time in class together. I created this playlist by going through my own music library and looking for songs that fell under three main categories that I feel like…
Hi everybody! Feel free to check out the project Tess, Will, and I are working on and let us know if you have thoughts! What: Briefly describe how the form of your group’s final project has changed and/or developed from what you described in the first check-in. In our initial project check-in, we focused on…
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…
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo, by Ntozake Shange, is an American novel that tells the story of three Afrifcan American sisters, as they attempt to reach success and fulfillment. The novel jumps between various narrative viewpoints through the 60’s and 70’s. The racially charged atmosphere of the time period provides a unique perspective on perseverance and…