Monday, December 3, 2007

stories within stories

Black Doll White Doll by Kiri Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDa0gSuAcg
Kiri Davis, a 17-year old high school student and maker of the short film, A Girl Like Me, re-enacts doll test given to children during the 1950's Brown vs. Board of Education Case.

What is the significance of intertextuality and allusion? What other examples can you think of in The Bluest Eye?

Imitation of Life: a movie watched by Maureen Peal and by her mother some four times or so...

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