> That's "Benito Cereno."
OK, I admit my spelling is shot to whatsit.
But one odd thing about BC is that it's (as far as I know -- Twain's Huck,
Harris's Uncle Remus, Uncle [natch] Tom) -- the +only+ 19thC American tale
that presents blacks in terms of who they really were, in terms of
background, rather than via the white (octaroon, etc.) eye. And [excuse the
non-pc phrase] non-submissive niggers.
The untold story -- what about all those 19thC slave revolts? John Brown's
body is still mouldering, Nat Turner got written up in his death-cell by a
white middle-class New York reporter. +Then+ gets novelitised by Styron.
One of the things that grabbed me about Berry's "Morant Bay" -- Berry's
blacks were non-submissive.
Robin Hamilton.
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