Important- Your posts must address Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo. Please see the Discussions section of our syllabus for directions. If you do not have a topic in mind, you may wish to consider ONE of the following:
1) How does magical realism function in this work? What role does it play in the text and in the lives of the characters?
2) Consider the role of Indigo’s dolls. How does the role change and what does this shift reflect?
3) What kind of a childhood does Indigo have? How might losing a father have impacted Indigo and her family environment? Who serves as an “othermother,” or supplementary maternal influence, for Indigo?
4) What kind of a suitor is Leroy? How, broadly, does Shange paint men?
5) How does Mama seem to regard assimilation and Afrocentrism? To what extent does this text embrace/promote feminist values?
