I took Survey of American Literature last year with Professor McGee and we read Sojourner Truth's piece "Ain't I A Woman". We watched the same reading of the piece by Alfre Woodard that we watched today. When I read her piece for today's class, I read it just as the speaker read it in the video. I think that it is interesting the way it is read differently before hearing it read compared to reading it for the first time. If you haven't read it again, you should. You will read it much differently. There is just more power behind the message that she is delivering and I think it really shows how well she could speak, even if she was said to be illiterate.
I was planning on posting that video on here after class if Professor McGee did not show it, but she mentioned that Kerry Washington also did a reading that I was not aware of. I watched that one, and I think I like Woodard's reading better. I just liked the tone and the power behind the words that Woodard used. I felt like that was more like how Sojourner Truth would have read it. To me Washington's reading just seemed a little more passive. What do you think?
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