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8. For an excellent discussion of gender and politics in Williams’s novel, see Christina Simmons, “Modern Marriage for African Americans, 1920-1940,” Canadian Review of American Studies 30:3 (2000). My thanks to A. Crew, whose crazedloveblog pointed me toward Professor Simmons’s essay.
9. My thanks to Barbara Foley for sharing this letter with me.