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In John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead builds upon this simple tale to create a contrapuntal masterpiece. The narrative revolves around J. Sutter, a young black journalist. Sutter is a "junketeer," a freeloading hack who roams from one publicity event to the next, abusing his expense account and meeting for biweekly sex with a publicist named Monica.
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28 de jun. de 2021 · John Henry days : a novel by Whitehead, Colson, 1969-Publication date 2001 Topics Henry, John (Legendary character) -- Fiction, Henry, John (Legendary character), African American journalists -- Fiction, Race relations -- Fiction, Racism -- Fiction, African American journalists, Race relations, Racism, West Virginia -- Fiction, West ...
John Henry Days By COLSON WHITEHEAD Reviewed by JONATHAN FRANZEN". . . cannily engages the interior crisis of manhood in present-day America . . . funny and wise and sumptuously written, but it's only rarely a page turner . . .
The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses ...
29 de may. de 2009 · In "John Henry Days" we have a local story (Talcott is just 20 miles down river from me), a WV tale, and one of the finest and most accessible Postmodernist novels ever written. I have been reading and rereading the novel for a while now and it has been an immense pleasure each time.
The historical context of Colson Whitehead’s 2001 novel, “John Henry Days,” is rooted in the legend of John Henry, a steel-driving man who became a symbol of the struggle for African American rights in the late 19th century. The story of John Henry, who raced against a steam-powered drill to prove the superiority of human labor, has been ...
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