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Subject: BS: Identify this novel? From: MGM·Lion Date: 25 Mar 14 - 01:59 PM I wrote on the ongoing "Dencia" thread -- "I recall a novel, but regret I forget its name & author, telling of a dark-skinned black woman ostracised, or patronised as "dark meat" (that locution remains with me) by her lighter-skinned black contemporaries. I think the setting was Chicago." Does anyone recognise this book or its author? ~Michael~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:04 PM Was it Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: MGM·Lion Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:11 PM No. Thanks, Eliza; but it was no such famous writer as that. I think it was perhaps semi-autobiographical. I am trying to put a date to when I read it. I seem to recall Valerie & I read it in the 1960s, when it was recently published IIRC. Sorry to be so vague & wambly. ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:15 PM You're just like me Michael. I'm always trying to remember some literary detail, but sadly anything fairly 'modern' I don't have much knowledge about. (And I should also remember 'never use a preposition to end a sentence with!') |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: Allan C. Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:18 PM How about Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: Allan C. Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:21 PM Oops, posted the wrong paste. Try, The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: MGM·Lion Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:25 PM Many thanks, Allan. That was the one indeed. Greatly relieved to have tracked it down after all these years. ~Michael~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: MGM·Lion Date: 25 Mar 14 - 02:32 PM ... and just to add a sincere thanks to Mudcat, which triumphs again ~~ my really quite obscure question, about something vaguely ½-remembered from 50 years back, answered in just about 20 minutes flat!! ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Identify this novel? From: Allan C. Date: 27 Mar 14 - 08:39 AM MtheGM, you gave the right clues. The searching the key phrase together with the location and that it was not only a novel but was not a recent one was not terribly difficult. Given that the phrase is one that was in common use by military men some time ago I was surprised the search was not more encumbered with false leads. |
