Collection: Fiction
Genre: FICTION > Contemporary
Robert Johnson’s Freewheeling Jazz Funeral
Whit Frazier
Role: Author
During the heady days of the 2008 election cycle, playwright Rudy Paschal struggles to create a new theater that reflects a contemporary Black aesthetic using the iconic figure of Robert Johnson and the last days of his life. His girlfriend, Janet, a white feminist literary theorist at NYU, is at work on a book herself, attempting to find peace between third-wave feminism and womanism. The political and cultural differences dividing the two leads to a strain in the relationship which leads both characters to re-examine their core values.
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