Works Cited
Baldwin, James. If Black English Isn’t A Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? July 29,1979. Web. March 14, 2011.
~ This short essay talks about the evolving of Black English through the African Diaspora. Baldwin asks the question that language plays and how it ultimately reveals the speaker. We discover why language is so critical to our identity. The theme of identity is a common one throughout my essay.
~ This short essay talks about the evolving of Black English through the African Diaspora. Baldwin asks the question that language plays and how it ultimately reveals the speaker. We discover why language is so critical to our identity. The theme of identity is a common one throughout my essay.
Bamboozled. Dir. Spike Lee. Perf. Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Savion Glover. New Line Cinema. 2000. DVD.
~The film Bamboozled, by director Spike Lee is a challenge to the status quo. In an attempt to get fired from a major T.V. network career, the main character Dela decides to bring back the minstrel show. After the audience makes it a hit, Dela has a whole other set of problems. This film challenges ideas of racism and identity. I believe I can also tie this film to ideas of the trickster and also the role of language.
~The film Bamboozled, by director Spike Lee is a challenge to the status quo. In an attempt to get fired from a major T.V. network career, the main character Dela decides to bring back the minstrel show. After the audience makes it a hit, Dela has a whole other set of problems. This film challenges ideas of racism and identity. I believe I can also tie this film to ideas of the trickster and also the role of language.
Leland, John. Hip: The History. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print.
~This will be the main foundation for the definition of hip. Leland uses multiple examples of hip and makes a case for each of the sources I will be using. I plan to examine each source further and relate them to the "shape hip takes."
~This will be the main foundation for the definition of hip. Leland uses multiple examples of hip and makes a case for each of the sources I will be using. I plan to examine each source further and relate them to the "shape hip takes."
‘‘The Killers,’ Ernest Hemingway: Interpretation.’’ In Understanding Fiction, edited by Cleanth Brooks, Jr. and Robert Penn Warren. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1943, pp. 306—25.
~This is a Hemingway classic short story that challenges the idea of identity and time. This can been thought of in a hip light due to the break from orthodoxy and challenges the constraints of time. The concept that arises a huge epiphany is when we discover that the time inside is different from the time outside. This concept pokes at the rational construction of reality; and that is hip!
~This is a Hemingway classic short story that challenges the idea of identity and time. This can been thought of in a hip light due to the break from orthodoxy and challenges the constraints of time. The concept that arises a huge epiphany is when we discover that the time inside is different from the time outside. This concept pokes at the rational construction of reality; and that is hip!
This looks really good! I like that you've isolated specific components of "hip" for the essay and showed how each text will play into the definition's components.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of identity seems to be the dominant one so far. Language is a close second, but that seems to actually be a tool with which identity could be created.