TOPIC FOCUS (Central Objective) I want to explore the theme of blackness and erotic sexuality, and the power dynamics of sexual performance in Black literature. This idea interests me because I like the psychoanalytic lens and I’ve recently enjoyed reading The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han. I’d like to think about the erotic within…
Final Project: “Individual Identity in a Cultural Context” I am obsessed with context. When watching television or consuming Beyonce in her various forms, my questions send me beyond the work to patterns of thought, influences, and deeper meaning. I want to know the personnel and how those persons’ experiences also contributed to the work. I…
When readers pick up Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, we are immediately confronted with claim that she has “too much of the South in her.” Even on this back cover, however, there is a tension between what that means in terms of physical location and spiritual connection. The book summarizes “Indigo, the youngest, is still a…
In the scene with Sassafrass and Mitch in their L.A. apartment, Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, which at times can become fantastic or unreal, grounds itself in historical figures. Sassafrass makes “macrame hangings” of “Malcolm…Fidel, Garvey, Archie Shepp, and Coltrane” and wants to share but is forced to hide the “sequin-and-feather hanging shaped like a…
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…
Due November 30 th by 11:59 pm Please email your responses to the below questions to me. You may also choose to post your check ins to the class site as a way of sharing with your classmates. As of now, what is your central question? (Your central question is the question that each of…
Due November 20 th by 11:59 pm Please email your responses to the below questions to me. You may also choose to post your check ins to the class site as a way of sharing with your classmates. As of now, what is your central question? (Your central question is the question that each of…
You may email me your responses directly as a Word document, but I encourage you to post your project check-ins to the class site.* Doing so facilitates the feedback loop and also allows you to get a sense of how other groups are tackling similar or related issues. Project Overview Briefly describe your tentative ideas…
You may email me your responses directly as a Word document, but I encourage you to post your project check-ins to the class site.* Doing so facilitates the feedback loop and also allows you to get a sense of how other groups are tackling similar or related issues. TOPIC FOCUS (Central Objective) What key idea,…
Due November 20 th by 11:59 pm Please email your responses to the below questions to me. You may also choose to post your check ins to the class site as a way of sharing with your classmates. As of now, what is your central question? (Your central question is the question that each of…