ebonics sections

[elihoughton]

Just wondering what others are thinking of the "ebonics" sections, as some people call them. I have encountered two so far, the Clenette and Wardine section on pp. 37-39 and the yrstruly section pp. 127-135.

While I am loving the book, I personally found these sections to be a bit of a failure. I am not offended by the sections. I know what he is trying to do. I just don't think he gets the syntax or cadence quite right. When Faulkner writes stream of consciousness for undereducated people, I feel that someone could possibly think/speak like that. I don't get that feeling from the sections in IJ. Maybe DFW is a little out of his element here?

I do think the yrstruly section works better than the Wardine section.

Any opinions?

[elihoughton]

I meant for this to go under Infinite Summer. Sorry.