African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
231 p, Contents: Postcolonial modernism/modernist postcolonialism --; "Not borrowers, but bearers of a tradition" --; Listening to Eliot : poetic revolution and common speech --; Public poets
"[Thomas] Sutpen launches his design with that obliviousness that is American innocence. Once on Haiti, Sutpen disregards the manifest evidence of impending 'slave' revolt and hybrid racial ancestries. Sutpen's famously preserved innocence amounts to the habit of looking without seeing." (author)