Bound Woman is A Dangerous Thing

Shut up in my bones
● "Fire shut up in my bones" Terrance Blanchard
● Scriptural reference - Jeremiah Denounces His Persecutors

Symbols/Themes
● Black pain used throughout
● Rebellion - incarceration
● Folk magic – voodoo in Bewitched
● AAVE – used throughout as
● Religion – used as a part of the culture and has roots as deep as the slave
experience
● Music – used spirituals to invite the religion used above
● Animalization – retaken and rather than being used to demonize black people, they
are used as symbols of power "elephant stomp" "beautiful mermaid"
Friday Black
Parts
● The Finkelstein 5
● Things My Mother Said
● The Era
● Lark Street
● The Hospital Where
● Zimmer Land
● Friday Black
● The Lion & the Spider
● Light Spitter
● How to Sell a Jacket as Told by IceKing
● In Retail
● Through the Flash
Themes
● Consumerism – friday black, twist on black friday?, seems rather ravenous and
almost savage, a la Lord of the Flies
● Controllable blackness leading to lack of authenticity – emmanuel "dialing" his
blackness to suit the situation
● Closeted surrealism – seems surreal that these still happen, but as a whole, this is a
common expereience in the black community