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Tar-Baby, Terrapin, and Trojan Horse— A Face-the-Music Cosmo Song from the University's Hind Tit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Extract

What do you do when you come to know that you're stuck to the intractable stuff of other folks' and other times' making, stuck more deeply the more you rail against it for not answering to your hailing? What do you do when you're busted to pieces and can't pull it all together with the hum of a song? What do you do when you find yourself outside a structure that won't let you (or your loves) inside its towered walls and gated communities? What follow are prescriptions divined from fabulous tales of tar babies, terrapins, and supersized machine-horses. Southern myth-science. To borrow from others in this collection: hum/animal songs from outer space(s).

Type
The Changing Profession
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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