A Commentary on the Passing Scene by
Robert Paul Wolff
rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Thursday, February 25, 2016
THEY KEEP COMING
Lecture Eight in my Ideological Critique series is now available on YouTube. With this lecture, I move on from ethnography to literary criticism. Two to go!
Good one. Still waiting to see how Jane Austin turns out to be a slavery writer. To go back to last week: How can it be that in Lee's interviews of the Zhu, he didn't pick up any historical references to ancestors' life under the British?
Good one. Still waiting to see how Jane Austin turns out to be a slavery writer. To go back to last week: How can it be that in Lee's interviews of the Zhu, he didn't pick up any historical references to ancestors' life under the British?
ReplyDeleteThe astonishing thing is that he did, and even so, went on viewing them as paleolithic holdovers. He knew that they had been cattle herders!!
ReplyDeleteAstonishing indeed.
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