MDDM related book: Modern Medea

[Doug Millison]

from a scholar who knows Pynchon well, having annotated GR with some
attention to the Herero "suicide", more insight into what life must have
been like under those "benevolent" slave masters; the book's on sale now,
remaindered, apparently, quite a bargain:



http://www.daedalus-books.com/default.cfm?&CFID=1716421&CFTOKEN=8239278
"On a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky
slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced north, toward
freedom. Soon, however, the Garners were discovered in their cabin hideout,
and Margaret turned on her children with a knife rather than see them sent
back to a life of slavery. Her child-murder electrified American society,
and it led to the country's longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial.
Garner's story inspired numerous fictional treatments-including Toni
Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved-yet Steven Weisenburger is
the first nonfiction writer to delve into this astonishing story in more
than a century. His dramatic narrative paints a nuanced portrait of the
not-so-genteel Southern culture that perpetuated slavery and had such
destructive effects on those who lived within it. "