As of now, what is your central question? (Your central question is the question that each of your takes will take up and to which your project as a whole will respond.) How do we see a physical presence influence an attitude or tone in the novels we’ve read, specifically Leaving Atlanta? Does physical presence…
Over the course of Ntozake Shange’s novel, Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo, the main characters continuously break away from the demands and traditions of the patriarchal social system. The three sisters, Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo are determined to find their own journey of expression and creativity, despite their mother’s (Effania) attempts to remind them that it…
Throughout the course, we have read pieces that revolve around movement and its actions in relation to behavior. In this final project I plan to explore the specifics of the black body in motion throughout time and place from the novels we have read. The characters from the various novels we have read all display…
The role of the t.v in part one of Tayari Jones’ Leaving Atlanta is not a large presence, however, it is an insightful one. Once it becomes present in the kitchen, it becomes a participant at the dinner table, setting the tone and filling their stomachs with emotions. Readers understand Tasha and her sister Deshaun…
The character development within Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is quite critical. While Celie, the protagonist, develops drastically based on her environment and other characters around her, so does her sister Nettie overseas. Although Celie’s character is more focal, readers are able to see the two sisters’ identities unravel over the course of the…
One of the claims Paul Gilroy argues in chapter two of “The Black Atlantic,” is that much of Western modernization and history leaves out the origin and idea of race. Rather, the “innocent modernity” that many theorists and post-enlightenment thinkers critique from, is the emergence from the “happy social relations that graced post-Enlightenment life in…