Race in this:
I recall reading somewhere, something by Delany, in which he says that any
qualms about the political agenda of the book for him were over-ridden by RAH
just casually dropping in some indication, well into the book, that the
viewpoint figure was black? I vaguely remember from my own very distant
reading two characters talking about what language they speak 'at home', and
in neither case is this English (in one it's Tagalog): it's not clear
whether the countries concerned are part of the then USA or whatever (the
exact political system is something I've long forgotten, or whether there are
enclaves of immigrants within it). Which seems to imply, if perhaps not very
forcefully, some kind of multi-ethnicity, with English as a kind of lingua
franca.
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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