Part I: Hearing the Room
Unit 3: Bomb, Ballast, and Historical Recurrence
Monday September 7 and Wednesday September 9
What lets a person remain answerable after a room refuses them?
Orientation
A bomb is something that happens in a room, not a verdict on a soul. This week we ask what steadies a performer so that a bad night discloses rather than destroys.
What this Unit teaches
- the bomb as audience event rather than moral certification
- failure-as-disclosure versus redemption myth
- reverence versus fear
- the hack and prophet distinction
- "paid for the attempt"
- lineage as ballast
- Black hermeneutic of historical recurrence
- AME institutional inheritance
- Long on naming
- Du Bois on church and sorrow songs
- adoption versus genealogical destiny
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