Word: authorly
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...writing about blacks, a trick managed by Faulkner and few others, Banks seems too carefully respectful, an earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that is all we learn: she is black and beautiful. Another black woman in that book...
...School), female dress becomes a hindrance. Miss Beecher recommends self-reliance and deplores corsets, and Lidie, therefore, disguises herself as a boy. This works long enough to take her to a plantation in slave country but fails when she has a miscarriage. Further adventures set down by Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres, include an unwelcome marriage proposal from a doddering plantation owner and a threatened death sentence for stealing a slave. Lidie prevails and returns to Illinois, having, like the beguiled reader, seen an astonishing array of clamor and calamity...
Bobo's position was supported by Keith Reeves, author of Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Voters, and Voting in America, who concluded from his study on American voting discrimination that "too many whites still see black...
Joseph Heller, author of the satirical black comedy Catch-22, read excerpts from his newly-published memoirs Now and Then Yesterday at the Brattle Theatre...
...district, in the words of author George V. Higgins, "is a reasonably homogeneous fief in which Democratic loyalists constituted just under 41 percent of the voters...