A Voice from the South · Character
Mr. Tourgée
The novelist and activist behind Pactolus Prime, a white ally whose fiction on race the narrator probes for its insight and its limits.
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Also known as Pactolus Prime, Tourgée
First appearance: one phase of american literature
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He is the rare white writer who has staked real reputation on the Negro's cause, and the narrator credits that courage. Yet even his sympathetic imagination must be checked against the testimony of one who lives there.
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