AADS/ENGL 3328.01
I’d like to build on my last post by looking at the same area of Incidents and sticking with the idea of family, but this time analyzing a different textual object. I found this section of the text to be incredibly rich for analysis. After talking about Benjamin, Linda then goes on to talk about…
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…
While the exact date of this painting is unknown, Vermeyen lived from the year 1500 to the year 1559. Therefore can deduce that the creation of his painting, “The Holy Trinity,” fell somewhere in this range. This painting depicts God welcoming Jesus back to heaven after his crucifixion, surrounded by a bright light that is…
Black joy is a form of resistance that gives agency to Black people in times where oppression and racism have tried to take away everything else. Stowe portrays an instance of black joy when she describes Uncle Tom’s cottage at the beginning of chapter 4. The cottage is first described as a “small log building”…
Throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the examples of supposedly kind and good-natured white men to show that structural, rather than solely individual, change is needed to dismantle the institution of slavery. Furthermore, Stowe uses these characters to show how religion, when misinterpreted and treated as a series of laws can contribute to…
Throughout the novel, Stowe presents varying accounts of slaves – some had “kind” masters, some had their children stolen from them, some had their families separated, and some incurred physical abuse – but no experience is more profound than that of Prue’s. Towards the end of chapter XVIII, Prue is introduced as a gruff, scowling,…
In Chapter XVII of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe uses the character George Harris as a Christ-like figure that has come to bring freedom to those he loves, as well as lay the groundwork for black freedom in America. George, Eliza, Harry, and the Quakers had evaded Tom Loker and his band of slave catchers, only…
Due by 10:00 am on Wednesday, February 17th Post the name of a mainstream film, miniseries television event, or extended narrative music video (e.g. Lemonade) that you believe successfully promotes a radical or progressive political issue. Provide a short (2-3 sentence) summary of the plot and a brief (3-5 sentence) description of the political issue…
1- Sign up for a UTC chapter that you wish to reread. (I emailed the link for the Google Doc signup sheet.) 2- Record yourself rereading the chapter of UTC aloud. After doing so, take a few moments to jot down what you noticed about the text while reading it aloud that you hadn’t previously…
What made UTC so politically potent? It’s delicate appeal to our common humanity.