Unnamed Negro Nursemaids

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-01 13:20
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2147
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Unnamed Negro Nursemaids
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Unnamed Negro Nursemaids
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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According to the narrator of Light in August, "few of the townspeople" take any notice of the sign in front of Hightower's house (58), but "now and then" an "idle and illiterate" "negro nursemaid with her white charges would loiter" and spell out the letters on it (59).

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