The Secret integration

[Mark Kohut]

I agree it does but No, I did not know of the anti-slavery and abolitionist
history.
I did not (yet) look it up.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:08 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,
> Springfield, as you know, played a crucial role in the anti-slavery
> and abolitionist periods and was a destination of Blacks during the
> Great Migration.
>
> It is some 40 miles East of The Berkshires, where, as the narrator
> indicates in the exposition to the tale is a place New Yorkers flood
> to for vacation, as they still do.
>
> The Barringtons, a black family there, are something of an exception,
> as racial hostility and economics would limit the prospects of most
> Blacks, so buying a house in the white community would be unusual and,
> of course,  the real estate business, red lining and the rest would
> prevent  integration, and, though they have no children so the
> "threat" they pose to their white and racist neighbors, is strictly
> economic,  and not one of schools integration, we can see that Pynchon
> wants the Northern, New England town, as opposed to the Southern
> setting of Twain's classics, the texts that are the parodic
> intellectuals. The setting, I think, works brilliantly.
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The story is set close to home, a town perhaps like TRP grew up in.
>  He sez it was greyhound trips and such that made it real enough, better
> than the others. Which he had to reimagine closer to home. What budding
> artists do. And written after V, set farther away than his hometown- like
> place, historical and outside of America AND also in NYC, which was a new
> "home" during V. So I think it interesting what he says makes it OK, that
> 's really all and not much at all, I see .
> >
> > But there is this: closer to his home and then the next one his new
> home. Home  as found, as a good scholar titled his book about American
> Literature.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:51 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Why is hoe in quotes? Not sure I'm following you here, Mark.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> TRP sez in this story he felt and started to get down some of the
> world he saw on Greyhound trips, etc. That included the imagining of a
> broke black musician in a hotel w a drinking problem.
> >>> What else in this story set closer to "home" than most of V?
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone-
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