English 2720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Utopia, Historical Fiction, Strange Ways
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It blurs fiction and non fiction, myth and history, etc. This is reed"s main concern as a writer, mixing fact and fiction. Who is to say what is fact and what is fiction? (7) It will always be a mystery, history. (8) He show the past through the lens of the present. Swille rises and rises over to lincoln . Think before you sign that proclamation, mr. president. Good something to eat when you wonts it. Some whiskey and a little nookie from time to time. We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and theres free dental care and always a fiddler case your feets get restless. (37) He draws on stereotypes of african american slaves. The stereotypes of the happy dark worked to justify the institution of slavery. He throws in modern parts with the old, like color tv around during slavery times.
