Ava DuVernay’s Origin and the Utility of Caste
Dearest Reader,
When I heard that filmmaker Ava DuVernay was making a feature film based on Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s brilliant non-fiction work Caste (published in 2020), I was very curious to see how DuVernay would weave a narrative from such dense intellectual material. When I finally saw Origin (2023) written, directed and produced by …
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