William Wells Brown

[Tom Beshear]

Clotel is a fascinating novel -- kind of a mess, doesn't hold together the 
way we want novels to -- but its premise that Jefferson had children with 
one of  his slaves compels, as do the scenes illustrating the attitudes of 
various Southerners.

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From: "alice malice" <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:56 PM
Subject: William Wells Brown


> Why Brown? Because he pioneered virtually every genre of African
> American writing. Want to know black culture in his revolutionary time
> and as it has come down to us today? Read William Wells Brown. Because
> he was the most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his
> era. And because he was, as a mid-twentieth-century critic noted, a
> person unable to be uninteresting.
>
> http://blog.loa.org/
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