Word: bachelordom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burning Bush. Into this ailing, ingrown community Author Murray introduces Heroine Agatha, a colored girl who passes for white and is pregnant. Agatha's only real function in The Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby...