news from kintespace.com ::: Monday, April 28, 2008
Contents:
- ::: Donna Kate Rushin: The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman
- ::: rasx() Screenshots: Shots out at Sci-Fi Slavery
- ::: Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath Reads (YouTube.com)#### ::: Donna Kate Rushin: The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_dkrushin0.html
This is our third installment from the famous 1983 anthology, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith and published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press—a project instigated by none other than Audre Lorde. We take two selections from a humorous but serious Donna Kate Rushin: “The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman” and “The Black Goddess.”
The theatrical nature of these pieces seems quite appropriate when we read about her theater (and creative writing) teaching at South Boston High School. The voice here definitely contributes to what began as the The Colored Museum or For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and has largely ended up as “the one-woman show.”
Donna Kate Rushin was clearly a powerful contributor to movement of expression that is still echoed to this day.
::: rasx() Screenshots: Shots out at Sci-Fi Slavery
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/rasx45.html
Here is the third installment in my ragged series of rants about the psychic effects of the American style of slavery on modern cinema. This one follows “rasx() Screenshots: Shots out at Slavery” and “rasx() Screenshots: More Shots out at Slavery.”
Subjects: “Rutger Hauer as the Dying Gaul,” “Lawrence Fishburne’s Mental Bondage Drama,” and “Children of Black Women.”
::: Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath Reads (YouTube.com)
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_silvia4.html
It was quite a surprise to discover the voice of Sylvia Plath presented in digital motion pictures at YouTube.com. We present three of her re-rendered readings: “Daddy,” “Fever 103” and “Lady Lazarus” for your listening (and viewing) exploration and (perhaps) pleasure.
This rich media kit follows our more conservative text presentation, “Sylvia Plath: On the Decline of Oracles.”