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Sites about Juneteenth
From the publisher: “In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from a New England state, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. The Reverend summoned; the two are left alone. Out of their conversation, and the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. For this United States senator, once known as Bliss, was raised by Reverend Hickman in a religion- and music-steeped black community not unlike Ralph Ellison’s own childhood home. He was brought up to be a preaching prodigy in a joyful black Baptist ministry that traveled throughout the South and the Southwest. Together one last time, the two men retrace the course of their shared life in “an anguished attempt,” Ellison once put it, “to arrive at the true shape and substance of a sundered past and its meaning.” In the end the two men arrive at their most painful memories, memories that hold the key to understanding the mysteries of kinship and race that bind them, and to the senator’s confronting how deeply estranged he has become from his true identity.”
Characters: Bliss, Hickman, Movie Man, Sunraider, Sister Georgia
Critical sites about Juneteenth
- Ellison’s second act, visible at last
- http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/9922/books-lightfoot.php
- Lengthy critical review of Ellison’s novel, Juneteenth.
- Contains: Review, Content Analysis, Plot Summary
- Author: Judy Lightfoot
- From: Seattle Weekly June 3-9, 1999
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Other (non-critical) sites about Juneteenth
- Books of the Times: Juneteenth
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/daily/052599ellison-book-review.html
- A New York Times review of the work.
- Contains: Review
- Author: Michiko Kakutani
- From: New York Times May 25, 1999
- Author: Michiko Kakutani
- From: New York Times May 25, 1999
- Keywords:
- The calculus of ‘Juneteenth’
- http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/9922/books-lightfoot.php
- Interview with the editor of Juneteenth, John Callahan.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Judy Lightfoot
- From: Seattle Weekly June 3-9, 1999
- Author: Judy Lightfoot
- From: Seattle Weekly June 3-9, 1999
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- Unfinished Business
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/reviews/990620.20menandt.html
- Another New York Times review of the work.
- Contains: Review
- Author: Louis Menand
- From: New York Times June 20, 1999
- Author: Louis Menand
- From: New York Times June 20, 1999
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