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Peter Wheatstraw the Devil’s Son-in-Law

January 8, 2014 by William Eaton

I just finished a class on Ralph Ellison and was lucky enough to spend an entire semester on one of my favorite writers. We read his most famous novel, Invisible Man, his collections of short stories and essays, and Juneteenth, published posthumously in 1999. For Ellison, folklore was a constant and significant influence. A folkloric figure that appeared in both of his novels was Peter Wheatstraw, a figure for whom even Ellison, with all of his knowledge of African American folklore, […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: folklore, Ralph Ellison

Reading: 14-20 October 2013 (ZiR)

October 15, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 14 October 2013 On Loss Yesterday marked the loss of Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Hijuelos wrote about the assimilation experience of immigrants to the United States. From a 2011 article in The New York Times: Despite the […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: banned books, fiction, literature, New York Times, obituary, Ralph Ellison

A Week of Reading: 21-27 October 2012

October 22, 2012 by William Eaton

From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Assistant Editor 21 October 2012 Reading Tolstoy’s early short novel The Two Hussars. Tolstoy expresses his longing for the previous generation in the story of Count Turbin, who endears himself to the inhabitants of a small provincial town, and his son, also Count Turbin, who appears in the town twenty years later, and unable to live up to the image of his father, makes the opposite impression. Interesting how we long for what was… Also reading the New York […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Andy Warhol, Ralph Ellison, Tolstoy

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