{"id":1728,"date":"2018-09-27T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:56:12","slug":"post-zake-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Post-Zake visit (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Zakettes!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_1729\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ntozake-w-Shange-Worlds-Class-2018_1-e1538060066526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1729\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ntozake-w-Shange-Worlds-Class-2018_1-e1538060066526-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ntozake-w-Shange-Worlds-Class-2018_1-e1538060066526-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ntozake-w-Shange-Worlds-Class-2018_1-e1538060066526-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ntozake-w-Shange-Worlds-Class-2018_1-e1538060066526-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What a beautiful group!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I want to thank you all for bringing such wonderful energy and insightful questions to the events this week.\u00a0 I was regretting that we really hadn&#8217;t had time to bond before Zake&#8217;s visit, but now we&#8217;ve had, I think, a transformative experience.\u00a0 Re the blog: This is a &#8220;free&#8221; week. Which is to say, I&#8217;m not requiring one,\u00a0 but you will want to write one 1). If you joined the class late\u00a0 2).\u00a0 to give yourself some wiggle room if you need to miss one later<!--more-->3). in order to preserve and process\u00a0 these feelings and memories.\u00a0 Post at any time, but I&#8217;d prefer they go up before Monday afternoon.\u00a0 (You will need at least four to do a solid mid-term assignment.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a folder in Courseworks with the group photos- <a href=\"https:\/\/courseworks2.columbia.edu\/courses\/63534\/files\/folder\/Zake%20Visit%20Photos\">Zake Visit Photos<\/a> (I&#8217;ll add others soon as I get them off the phone).\u00a0 I would love for you to share your photos (and we should think about whether we want them on the Scalar project).\u00a0 Also share on social media. Renee would like you to take Ntozake&#8217;s page. English and Africana studies would like you to share with them. if you are on twitter or Instagram, tag @ShangeWorlds or #Zakette. Apologies to those who missed this photo&#8211;I should have done one at the beginning and the end.<\/p>\n<p>Some wrap up items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will be around from 3:30-5:30.\u00a0 this is a good time to meet with me if you are having trouble with the blog, etc.\u00a0 Also feel free to come in groups if you just want to talk or read a poem.\u00a0 My office is Barnard Hall 411.<\/li>\n<li>It was only during class that I realized we are not reading\u00a0<em>spell\u00a0#7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people,<\/em> which us one of my favorite Shange plays, although it has never gotten rave reviews. She mentioned two poems made famous in that piece, so I&#8217;ll be uploading them soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>UPDATE: I got this question about the blogpost<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>ANSWER: no&#8211;this doesn&#8217;t require the level of analysis I anticipate in posts focused on the readings. Nor do I expect outside media (other than class pix).\u00a0It can also be a poem or prose-poem. As we have seen in Ntozake&#8217;s works&#8211;those feelings about an experience can be combined with deep insight&#8211;maybe that&#8217;s what we are working towards always?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zakettes! I want to thank you all for bringing such wonderful energy and insightful questions to the events this week.\u00a0 I was regretting that we really hadn&#8217;t had time to bond before Zake&#8217;s visit, but now we&#8217;ve had, I think, a transformative experience.\u00a0 Re the blog: This is a &#8220;free&#8221; week. 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