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Turning to the installation as a whole, we're tempted to find some sequential continuity in the processional arrangement of figures Walker's title supports this literary drive, evoking the conventions of 19th century slave narratives: "Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found by Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored, 1997." Yet our search for narrative unity is frustrated by fragmentation, as all mythic histories and fantasies are. The figures run into each other, and we can hardly determine on which of the Carpenter Center...
...could get a job," Jerry claims, "but it'd belike being a slave...
...realized that it was going to take up all of my time, and it wasn't worth it," Ankur N. Ghosh '01 says. "If the Core were smaller, I think I might have done the pre-med requirements, but I knew that would never happen, because Harvard is a slave to the Core." Ghosh is now an English concentrator with no plans toward pursuing a medical degree...
...word responsibility means `capable of response,'" he says, "and that means getting away from being a slave to the text...
...black people into the month of February implies that black history is different from American history. This allows for no more than a qualified recognition of blacks in American history, at best--despite the fact that no history can be more American than the history of America's slaves and their descendants. History simply cannot be divided into black and white. Anyone who really knows American history knows that there is no major event in the American narrative which was not in some way touched by the race issue. What's more, whether we like to admit...