With Liberty and Justice for All

Soumis par NT2 le mer, 10/24/2007 - 16:13

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Ce site présente un hypertexte d'autofiction engagé dans la lutte pour les droits des Afro-américains, avec photographies et images. Anciennement hébergée au http://home.comcast.net/~c.karasic/xensei/wlajfa/, l'oeuvre se retrouve maintenant au http://www.carminka.net/wlajfa/.

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Site d'hébergement:

Carmin Karazic - Electronic Portfolio

URL du site d'hébergement:

http://www.carminka.net/

Date de dernière consultation de l'oeuvre:

23 Mars 2007

Coordonnées de l'artiste:

carmin@pixelyze.com

Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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While playing one day, my friend and I had to pee, but we didn't want to stop playing & go home. So we used the space between someone's garbage cans. An MP (Military Policeman) saw us. It seems that what I did was wrong, but what the little boy did was alright. The MP said nothing to the little boy, but took me right home. It took many years for me to understand why I got in trouble, while the boy didn't...

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When I was 5, my mother said to me, "You don't have to say the Pledge. It isn't meant for you." That was in 1959 on my first day of school. She added if the teacher tried to make me say it, then have her talk to my mother. I didn't know what the pledge was, or why it wasn't meant for me, but I understood that my mother, who usually insisted on good behavior, was clearly giving me permission to be a non-conformist. I didn't know it at the time, but my mother was implying that since we are Black, liberty and justice was not intended for us. "With Liberty and Justice for All" plays with the aesthetics of confusion in 3 juxtaposed browser windows. The largest window displays vignettes that provide context for images in 2 smaller windows. One of which displays the images from my childhood. The other displays my memory of the American Dream in the 1960s. Viewers will click links to move through the website, and draw their own conclusion: Was the pledge meant for this little black girl growing up in the US in the 1960s or not?

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With Liberty and Justice for All

Karasic, Carmin