![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, Whitehead’s project offers “a critical analysis of capitalism's exploitation of labor from the Gilded Age of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle of the twentieth century” in the guise of funny and moving vignettes. ![]() There, we meet a disparate group of festival attendees, from a journalist whose mission is to junket his way through his life to a series of people obsessed with the story of John Henry in different ways. Whitehead bases his novel in part on the real-life printing of the Folk Hero stamp series that included the legendary steel driver John Henry and on the 1996 John Henry Days festival in Talcott, West Virginia, the supposed location of John Henry’s mythic exploits. Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead’s novel John Henry Days (2001) is a postmodern social satire that weaves together several narrative threads to create a novel “with encyclopedic aspirations akin to Moby Dick or Ulysses,” according to David Foster Wallace. ![]()
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