Night 28
COUNTER-CANON: What the canon suppresses
Readings
- poem A Litany for Survival Read at Poets.org →
- essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- story The Lottery Read at PDF →
This is a Counter-Canon night about what the official story leaves out. Lorde writes for people who were never supposed to survive long enough to speak. Hurston -- whose grave Alice Walker had to find and mark -- refuses to be tragic about being Black in America and dares you to figure out why that's radical. Jackson drops a lottery into a small town and watches the community enforce a violence nobody questions. Each text asks: whose story gets told, and what happens to the ones that don't?
Journal entry coming soon.