Sublime

Updike’s “A&P”

Notes on Staging What It Looks Like: all illumination is from ostensibly non-electric sources. The first act takes place by firelight, outdoors. The second act takes place in an interior under a skylight in the afternoon. The third act takes place after nightfall, in an interior stage, lit with non-electric instrumentation: candles and oil lamps, p

Walker’s memory remained vivid among abolitionists well into the mid-nineteenth century, only to fade after the Civil War. But meanwhile, he had struck a strong blow against the notion that whiteness, throughout history, deserved to be judged positively.29