"Tracking Down a Negro Legend": Authenticity and the Postmodern Tourist in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days
In John Henry Days (2001), Colson Whitehead develops a hermeneutic in which the experiences of three generations of tourists, all in search of the folk hero John Henry, become ways of reading and rediscovering the forgotten history of the African-American experience from which John Henry arose. In t...
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VANDERBILT
2006
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06072006-185527/ |