English @ SUNY Geneseo | Anaya Packirisamy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ap31/activity/ Activity feed for Anaya Packirisamy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1cd239b24cf72499c51f7e6ca2f940eb Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Afrofuturism in Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10915/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:23:37 -0500 Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer is set in the future. It is a time where differentiating qualities are not valued. If you are “dirty” you get stripped off your memories of the past and become “clean”.

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]]> 0 d75691c4a6dfed4b0d879e6d2fe9eb16 Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10843/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:06:02 -0500 The Parable of the Sower is a novel set in California in 2024-2027. It is the near future where Butler envisions a gated society in the fictional town of Robledo. This science fiction novel has a young black […]

]]> 0 682b5eed273a96cc6a9ae3a08683217c Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Afrofuturism in furniture, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10790/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:47:40 -0500 That is a very interesting point you bring up. This show that afrofuturism can be expressed in such a variety of mediums. This is also a very helpful example to understand Snead’s quote on page 65.

]]> 0 013b585d731f5e1b823041a655030b6b Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Afrofuturism in Rap music, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10788/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:36:30 -0500 I agree with you when you said that most of the music genres in America are black music. I can definitely see Vince Staples’ Big Fish Theory album as being afrofuturistic. I like how you compared it to Sun Ra […]

]]> 0 80fa96ac6ab68340cd756c20ca7f939f Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post How the World was Made- a Super Crown in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10759/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:00:08 -0500 While searching for an afrofuturistic piece of work, I found this poem written by Rodger Bonair-Agard. The poem titled How the World was Made- a Super Crown incorporates aspects of West African and Caribbean […]

]]> 0 fdb5cf477e166b4693996daedc82a0be Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, My Perception of Culture, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10734/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:19:36 -0500 I also thought about the concept of culture developing due to survival of the people. I think many cultures have had practices develop due to having to survive, may it be due to colonization, famine, extreme […]

]]> 0 9230d853037c0aca398e44b3860c6583 Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Lack of Nature in Western Culture, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10733/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:52:39 -0500 That is a very interesting point you brought up. I had never thought of the lack of the importance and of nature in Western culture. Many rituals and holidays in Non-Western cultures have to do with the […]

]]> 0 2a17cdafee3acb9fa0d917b777af8320 Anaya Packirisamy wrote a new blog post Blog Post Week 3 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10686/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:03:11 -0500 What has really interested me in this class is analyzing afrofuturism in different mediums; not just literature. I like that we watch clips of Black Panther and talk about the artistic choices made to portray […]

]]> 0 d94bc3e70564e526673e264dcdf80355 Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, On Tolson's "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia", on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10628/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:06:58 -0500 I agree with your point that Tolson is emphasizing viewing Africa for what it truly is and not for what European colonizers made it seem to be. You brought up some great points!

]]> 0 fd17e111a6ea00c70e796b856a617f1e Anaya Packirisamy commented on the post, Week 2 Response, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10627/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:03:20 -0500 I agree that the FA section had many cultural references. I also thought it was interesting that Tolson used the soflège scale to categorize the poem. I think Tolson was portraying the progress of Liberia in […]

]]> 0 f46c68b638fb75e8519b1c98d539dc04 Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Blog Post Week 2 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10600/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:18:15 -0500 Tolson’s Libretto for Liberia is a poem in which he views the history of Liberia and portrays a future for the country. It includes the past, present and future. Every section of the poem is represented by a note […]

]]> 0 93ca82afa294e267bdfc6b37514d2db9 Anaya Packirisamy edited the blog post Repetition in Culture in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10525/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:32:15 -0500 Repetition that seems like “‘a quality of difference’ compared to what has gone before” is  a constant is one of James A. Snead’s claims in Repetition as a figure of black culture. Snead says that human culture […]

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