Daily Archives: 30 August 2004
Naipaul on W.E.B. and Booker T.
In two chapters of A Turn in the South entitled “The Truce with Irrationality” (I and II) Naipaul interviews mostly black Southerners in Tallahassee, Florida, and Tuskegee, Alabama. The title comes from Naipaul’s gloss on a literary quote. “The most … Continue reading
Up from Slavery: "A painful coded work"
On this journey I read [Booker T. Washington's] Up from Slavery twice. On the second reading, after I had been nearly four months in the South, I found that the book had changed for me. It became more than the … Continue reading
