As Toni Morrison sees it, William Faulkner’s observations about white panic go a long way toward explaining Trump’s victory.
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Tag Archives: Harper Lee
Toni Morrison: White Panic Led to Trump
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Harper Lee’s Book Became Less Honest
“Gp Set a Watchman” is not as polished a book as “To Kill a Mockingbird” but it is more ambitious and more honest. Something important got lost in the editing process.
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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
In Solitary Others We See Ourselves
When a Maine hermit is arrested after 27 years in solitude, we project our stories upon him.
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Harper Lee’s White Liberal Fantasy
Important though it was, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was also a white liberal fantasy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Blues for Mister Charlie, Civil Rights Movement, James Baldwin, liberalism, racism, To Kill a Mockingbird Comments closed
The White Liberal in Civil Rights Lit
White Liberals suffer a downward spiral in 1960’s Civil Rights Literature, from heroic Atticus Finch to “Radical Chic” Leonard Bernstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Blues for Mister Charlie, Civil Rights Movement, Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin, Radical Chic, Soul on Ice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Wolve, White Liberals Comments closed
America’s Avian Maestro, the Mockingbird
Tom Robbins and Scott Bates regard the mockingbird as an emblem for the consummate artist.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mockingbird", "Talented Mockingbird", Mockingbirds, Scott Bates, Skinny Legs and All, Songbirds, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robbins Comments closed