The Rediscovery of Black Power

Into the Mind of Heather Lelache: The Rediscovery of Black Power

Presenter: Abigail Reitman

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 19-20

Semester: Spring

Department: English

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1ywkJ6Vv8GuqJcxZZaDaPSU_R5kP40oTm

Abstract:
I wanted to take Professor Jennifer Shaw’s lecture “Feminist Art and the Black Art Movement” and relate it to a character in Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Lathe of Heaven.  I put together a collection of poetry/journal entries done from the perspective of Heather Lelache, a feisty and strong-willed biracial female lawyer. I pretended to be Heather Lelache and created a piece of art representing her thoughts and feelings of the goings-on over the course of the novel.