In my posts I tend to close read Shange\u2019s text to extract themes about the citizens of the African diaspora. I pick up to three themes present in the text we read that week and combine Shange\u2019s text with my own interpretations and opinions of those topics. I\u2019ve raised the issue of the imbalanced politics in interracial intimacy and how its perceived, the importance of poets as orators in the African diaspora, and how Shange \u201creconstructs language and culture to allow colonized and oppressed people, particularly Black people, to express emotions, discuss experiences, and commiserate with others.\u201d As the semester has progressed, I\u2019ve gotten freer with my forms, more willing to digress from the straight analytical form and embrace more of Shange\u2019s poetics. The one thing I do want to revisit in my work is actually not in my posts, but in my \u201cnappy edges\u201d presentation. I feel that I raised some ideas about the projects and goals of Shange\u2019s work that are worth revisiting and exploring.<\/p>\n
I often struggle to write a post on the days that I did not fully connect with the text, especially before class. Reading Shange in my isolation I am often confused or conflicted, I don\u2019t know what to think, what I think, or how to articulate it. It is only after class that I begin to understand the text and developed concrete and coherent thoughts about the work. I think that is visible in the posts I did for texts I did not connect with as strongly as others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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