Welcome to the class blog for E344L: The American South in Literature, Film and Other Media. Here, we will post our responses to the readings for the day. Each student has to post at least six times in the course of the semester, and will have signed up for posting dates early on. See the Post Instructions page for specific posting guidelines.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Hopeful Children
"Any black man who can read a book are the gateway to a forbidden world. And we are joyful when we hear a black man speak like a book. The people who say how the world is to be run, who have fires in winter, who wear warm clothes, who get enough to eat, are the people who make books speak to them. SOmetimes of a night we tell our children to get out the old big family Bible and read to us, and we listen wonderingly until, tired from a long day in the fields, we fall asleep" (Wright, 65).
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