The Secret integration

[ish mailian]

More important, of course, is the school desegregation history of the
setting. But, as the Jazz musician is a "migrant" and a "child", and
as the kid's resistance to the school board and to the community's
disposal of his work, rendering him a vagrant who is disposed of, the
struggle for civil rights, from ore-Civil War, Douglass and Walker
(Walker's Appeal), and so forth, is relevant. The fact that the the
parodic texts are Twain's is the key.

 Joe. "Children and Slaves in the West: Imagining Fraternity Among
Outlaws in 'The Secret Integration'."Oklahoma City University Law
Review 24.3 (Fall 1999): 518-533.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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