https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/rjxe5ypzkdua00dd Questions and themes raised by the documentary film en-us 2022-09-14 22:23:35 UTC 2025-11-16 17:54:16 UTC hello@padlet.com professordianapaulin https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/rjxe5ypzkdua00dd/wish/2297168995 How did she influence major cultural figures and how they influenced her (Angela Davis)?

Has her recognition as a Nobel prize winner generated/helped promote other writers of color?

What does writing without the white gaze look like?
How is the "white gaze" distinguishable and identifiable?
How does Morrison invite us to challenge our prior reading approaches?

How do personal experiences influence her writing?

How did she promote/pitch her own writing? Or, how did her experience as an editor inform her navigation of the publishing field?

What motivated her to write about each of the topics/perspectives she represents in her fiction over time? Was there a conscious projection of gender in her writing?

What literary techniques does she use to challenge or unsettle white male gaze, such as reframing power dynamics?]]> 2022-09-14 23:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/rjxe5ypzkdua00dd/wish/2297168995 professordianapaulin https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/rjxe5ypzkdua00dd/wish/2297171781 --eliminating the "white gaze"
--represent Black female perspective but also challenge those labels
--imagination-reframing imagination
--intentionality in her life crossed all arenas in her life
--compartmentalization
--trauma
--gender roles
--female friendships
--interpretations of masculinity
--parenting and mothering
--What are the strategies she uses to reorganize relational dynamics in order to represent/chronical so much lost history and how does she employ her characters and plots to give voice to/represent/excavate that history?]]> 2022-09-14 23:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/rjxe5ypzkdua00dd/wish/2297171781