1. How do Uncle Julius’s narratives critique John’s assumptions about slavery and slaves? Use two of the three stories we read in The Conjure Woman to answer this question.
2. The search for the lost mother governs the action in the first half of Harper’s Iola Leroy; indeed, it would seem that Reconstruction cannot begin until the mother is found. In other words, the reunion of the black family after the fragmentations of slavery and the reconstruction of the nation after the divisions of war are articulated as a single political project. To recreate the black family is to reimagine the new nation not as another White House, as it were, but as a more democratic home for all peoples. In this essay, I should like for you to analyze the role of maternity in Iola Leroy. How is the mother related to images of home and homelessness, and how does this relation suggest (if it does) a political desire for a different world?
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