EN 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Harlem Duet
Document Summary
Play is a kind of reclamation of african persons. P. 39 someday someone will talk about her . It"s very much about reclaiming her voice. Not about a male tragic protagonist but rather a heroine. Restoration at the end of the play. Explores the realm of race and sex among african people. It"s one movement unified extended. Applies to emotional extensity, heightened sense of emotion. Related to pleasure and joy as well. References loss blue note loss of emotion and relationship. A place where black culture was celebrated. Poets, dances, actors and actresses, writers lots of cross fertilization and celebration of black culture and expression. Setting is a small dressing in the theatre. Act 1, scene 8; act 2, scene 6, and prologue. Malcom x and martin luther king boulevard. Act 2, scene 7 flashback to brown stone apartment 7 years earlier. Jumping the broom" marriage ritual for blacks who were then seen as property.
