In fiction writing, the dramatic mask controls the assumptions of the story, to include the “terms of community” that select an audience and the image or cultural “language,” exploited by an author to define an audience; and the narrative contract.
In ADF, the primary control Dramatic form concerns what the story is, who is telling the story, and how the story is told.
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.
