Dark is Not A Feeling
if Dina had simply condemned herself to an eternal “dark” place away from the light of her prince and others, without changing her skin color, would we have cornered the racism in that idea?
Tag: africana studies
ADF: Dramatic Character
Dramatic character controls the dramatic line and character elements. The dramatic line represents the cycles of set-up, action, and suspense that create movement, imagery, and meaning in story, ultimately ensuring that
ADF: Dramatic Form
In ADF, the primary control Dramatic form concerns what the story is, who is telling the story, and how the story is told.
What is African dramatic form (ADF)?
In fiction writing and analysis, the three primary controls (or trees) of ADF are dramatic form, dramatic character, and dramatic mask.
The Negative Aesthetic
The negative aesthetic is the practice of creating imagery from a Black center and the process of identifying and rethinking anti-Black imagery so that it becomes from a Black center.
The Problem of Anti-Blackness in Our Literal and Literary Imagination
Manichean leitmotif uses blackness, black bodies, or African humanity to symbolize the degeneration of an identity. Non-whites or white undesirables were typically “negroized” to reflect a degenerate state.
African Dramatic Form (ADF): An Introduction
Using ADF for story development can help writers avoid “borrowing” anti-Blackness from non-African languages, allowing them to make their stories more empathetic, more meaningful, and more “Black.”