Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Allusions - pages 3-60

Try to incorporate the analysis of (some of) these allusions into your interpretation of the selected part in order to enrich / deepen your interpretation:

1. Song of Solomon (Jerome, p.7) - full text
analysis

2. "I'm just another black man caught up in the mix, tryna make a dollah outta fifteen cents" (Levi, p. 24) - allusion to 2Pac I Get Around


3. Rembrandt: Self -Portrait, 1629 Munich (p. 28)












4. Rembrandt - Self -Portrait with Lace Collar, 1629 The Hague












5. "I'm the Aunt Jemima on the cookie boxes of their childhoods, the pair of thick ankles Tom and Jerry played around." (Kiki, p. 51) - What does this statement suggest about Kiki's sense of self / her identity?
















6. Rembrandt: The Shipbuilder and His Wife (p. 54)