Unnamed Exchange Students

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-02 08:12
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Unnamed Exchange Students
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Unnamed Exchange Students
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In Requiem for a Nun these "young men from Brooklyn (exchange students at Mississippi or Arkansas or Texas universities)" wave "tiny confederate battle flags" at college football games (194). Calling out-of-state students "exchange students" is an odd formulation, suggesting that 'the North' they come from is essentially a different country - as of course it would have been to the Confederates who originally carried those flags during the Civil War.

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