In the imagination of white Southerners there were a lot more Haitian rebels coming into the South than actually ever got here.

在南方白人的想象中,来到南方的海地反叛者,比实际上要多得多

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Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选