Wednesday, April 6, 2016

State Senator Emails AP English Teacher to Offer His Thoughts on Beloved (Too Many Breasts)

State Senator Emails AP English Teacher to Offer His Thoughts on Beloved (Too Many Breasts): "When Toni Morrison’s Beloved was published, in 1987, Margaret Atwood, writing in the New York Times Book Review called it a “triumph.” She wrote of the novel, which has come to be considered one of the most important of the contemporary era, “[Morrison’s prose is] by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point.” A few weeks ago, writing in an email to an AP English teacher who is one of his constituents, Virginia State Senator Richard Black called Beloved “moral sewage.”"



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