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nat_turner.pptxNat Turner
Call/Response, History, Silence, Griot, and Silhouette
The Context
Be aware that the body and gestures will tell the story
Is there a difference between quiet, silence, and absence?
The narrative functions through silence
The meaning of the text is made through the critical engagement the reader has with it, in the very assertion of audience experience.
In Conversations
In conversation with Thomas R. Gray’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
William Styron’s The Confession of Nat Turner, 1967
Reverse Silhouette
Why?
What is the Griot here?
Creates an intimacy between the novel and the audience
Gray’s Novel?
Style
Silhoette
Why Silhouette?
Silhouettes suggest, they outline
For there to be a meaning one must insert many things: they represent possibilities
Historical Revelance
Community, History
The wording itself contains connotations of imagery already laced within their very utterances in which the affect is the (re)creation of the actual event
What does the bubble have to do with time?
Aunt Hestor though Silhouette, History
Homage to Frederick Douglass
