ENG426H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sonia Sanchez, Class Stratification, Nikki Giovanni
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Eng426 lecture 5: black power, black arts (10-20-20) Black power: took over from unfinished civil rights movement. Differences: thinking about art in relation to everyday experiences of black people rather than western standards of aestheticism or beauty. Sonia sanchez, blk / rhetoric : poem calls for new leadership and effective communicators to contribute to the revolution against black oppression under capitalism, rejection of black academic thought that writes black through use of short form abbreviation. Invokes straight revolutionary lines while presenting lines broken by slashes: shows how capitalism impedes revolution, structures built on minoritization and impoverishment cannot be undone through mere representation. Linguistic capacity to interrupt cycle of power and its cooption: black rhetoric can reorient black life away from black capitalism towards freedom. Revolution + pain: capitalism as distraction from revolution and future change, question of how giovanni defines pain key to how she defines revolution/stopping pain.
