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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      16. In "Rabbit Redux" Updike showed that he had (at least at that time) no ear for black vernacular speech. Black section badly misfires.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      17. Yet Updike in "Redux" was for the first time confronting the non-white world that his earlier fiction had drawn a curtain against.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      18. Out of "Redux" failure, the Rabbit books expand their social field outside Angstrom's personal life and try to encompass America.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      19. In her personal life in 1970s/80s, Updike had to deal with race more directly because a son & daughter both married African immigrants.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      20. So by 1980s Updike literally had an African-American family (in several senses) & had also traveled to Africa, Asia, South America.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      21. Updike's wider engagement with world and changes in family surely fed into The Coup: attempt to see USA through African eyes.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      22. I'd be the last person to describe Updike as racially enlightened.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      23. As @jonathanshainin usefully reminded me, in both "R. Redux" & "Coup" Updike refers to black man's penis as "whip-like."

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      24. Still, in Updike we see something interesting: a very white man trying to come to grips with the non-white world.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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      25. Won't explicate all of Updike's work but race theme is strong in "Roger's Version," "Brazil" and "Terrorist."

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014

      26. The narrator of "Roger's Version" is pretty racist and very uncomfortable by his mixed-race relative: deliberate on Updike's part.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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          27. Fredrick Crews thought "Roger's Version" proof of U's racism; I think it's a more serious probing of racism, not uncritical expression

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2014
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          28. I didn't event talk about the racial subtheme in Couples (very small part of novel, but it's there).

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