The book is set in the American South in the nineteen thirties.

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In fact it was Cash who wrote a book called The Mind of the South in which he argued, in part, that the South had no mind.

实际上卡什在他这本,名叫《南方的精神》中提出,在某种程度上,南方没有精神可言

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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。

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