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Doe Hunting and Masculinity: Song of Solomon and Go Down, Moses
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For example, Lucas Quintus as discussed by the authors eliminated that word from the name, not denying, declining the name itself, because he used three quarters of it; but simply taking the name and changing, altering it, making no longer the white man's but his own, by himself composed, self-progenitive and nominate, and by himself ancestored.Abstract:
. . . not Lucius Quintus @c @c @c, but Lucas Quintus, not refusing to be called Lucius, because he simply eliminated that word from the name, not denying, declining the name itself, because he used three quarters of it; but simply taking the name and changing, altering it, making no longer the white man's but his own, by himself composed, himself selfprogenitive and nominate, by himself ancestored . . . —William Faulkner, Go Down, Mosesread more
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Go Down, Moses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a typescript setting copy and miscellaneous galley proofs for the first time in the history of the world of typed documents, and discuss the differences between them.
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Folklore and Community in Song of Solomon
TL;DR: The "Song of Solomon" as mentioned in this paper is a variant of a well-known Gullah folktale about a group of African-born slaves who rose up one day from the field where they were working and flew back to Africa.