From: "Matthew Francis" <[log in to unmask]>
> But no one took me up on my question in the previous discussion
> about what people think of the black voice in the Dream Songs. I have to
> admit, it has me worried.
Perhaps more blackface than black -- Berryman is
imitating/parodying/alluding to corked-up white vaudeville entertainers,
isn't he, rather than any authentic American speech?
I can see why the worry is there, but I doubt if we'd +have+ the Dreamsongs
(at least in the form they are) without it.
Robin Hamilton
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