ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Audre Lorde, Chiasmus, Neologism
18 Mar 2013
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Black bodies and voices bring attention to the great hole of history by speaking from within that position. Black figures appropriating theme park, exhibition space pageant of history. Visibility of lincoln versus invisibility if african americans in the anti- slavery struggle. Tells us something factual then takes that away from us. To verify political history for us however in this play history is being destabilized as to what is actual fact. Past like an echo in his head (11) Future in act 1 is past in act 2 (16, 26-27), connected by sound of violence. Present trying to catch up with past (17, 19) Stage setting involves space and time literally in complicated combinations. Lucy and brazil digging in great hole of history for family memories and heritage. Doubling of characters; spatial ci-presence and suspension of historical time. This piece does not copy reality but creates a parallel universe with the vectors of race and power skewed.
