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PART TWO - DECOMPOSING UNITIES, DECONSTRUCTING NATIONAL NARRATIVES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

C. K. Doreski
Edited by
Eric Sundquist  and
Albert Gelpi
Eric Sundquist
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Albert Gelpi
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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I am no prophet – and here's no great matter;

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

And in short, I was afraid.

– T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917)

America is Good An Apple Pie

and maybe Emmett Till

in the small Negro pages of Jet

magazine in my soul where Words are fine

clothes for the Negro to die in

– Sam Cornish, “Langston Variations 1955”
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Writing America Black
Race Rhetoric and the Public Sphere
 , pp. 117 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1998

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