William Wells Brown

[David Morris]

I think "compells" implies plausibility, where I think now DNA has proven
it to be true.

On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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