In last Thursday’s post, I wrote about the image of dirt in Lillian E. Smith’s Strange Fruit (1944). Today, I want to continue looking at Smith’s novel. Instead of focusing on Tracy Dean as I did in the last post, I want to take a moment and examine the ways that Nonnie and Bess Anderson, along with Dessie, react to what occurs in the … Read More “Everything would be the same–as it always was.”
My expectations going into Mark Waid and J.G. Jones’ Strange Fruit were high. I expected to encounter, between the covers, a work that would explore “themes of racism, cultural legacy, and human nature.” Overall, I was a little underwhelmed, and I even questioned the purpose of the comic itself. If, as Waid and Jones argued, they wanted to present a text that examined issues … Read More Black Labor in Waid and Jones’ “Strange Fruit”
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Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children originally appeared in 1938. Two years later, Harper Collins reissued Wright’s collection of stories, adding the final story, “Bright and Morning Star,” and the autobiographical essay, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,” at the beginning. Along with these two additions, the 1940 reissue contains two epigraphs. The first comes directly before “The Ethics of Living Crow.” Here, Wright provides … Read More Music in Richard Wright’s "Uncle Tom’s Children"
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