One year after Brown v Board? Even more so, I would think.
Assuming "whiteness" without hearing it from the author is a
big no-no (angry? you've fallen into the trap, if so), and
similar technique has always been one of the many nifty
pinwheels in social satire's bag of performing cats.
----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen D. Rogers <
cc_sdr633@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 15,
2007 5:31:56 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Recent read: Charles
Willeford, Pick Up (SPOILER)
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In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com, scatalogic@. ..
wrote:
> SPOILER
> I don't know what other Avians think of the final
twist, the
revelation that
> Jordan is black - it certainly made me put the book
down a little
stunned
> and suddenly view it all in a different light and
then, bizarrely
feel a little
> tricked by and annoyed at the author. I guess it's
of its time, 1955
I also didn't know how to take the
ending. Could someone who read it
back when it was written respond to
the revelation?
Stephen
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