[BOOK][B] (Dis) forming the American canon: African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular

RAT Judy - 1993 - books.google.com
RAT Judy
1993books.google.com
From our degenerate literary art, as also from that itch for scribbling of our learned men
which has now reached such alarming proportions, wells forth the same sigh: Oh that we
could forget ourselves! The Attempt fails: memory, still not suffocated by the mountains of
printed paper under which it is buried keeps on repeating from time to time:" A degenerate
man of culture! Born for culture and brought up to nonculture!"
From our degenerate literary art, as also from that itch for scribbling of our learned men which has now reached such alarming proportions, wells forth the same sigh: Oh that we could forget ourselves! The Attempt fails: memory, still not suffocated by the mountains of printed paper under which it is buried keeps on repeating from time to time:" A degenerate man of culture! Born for culture and brought up to nonculture!"
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