Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral

Whit Frazier

Aug 2021 · The Multicanon Media Company, LLC

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Whit Frazier is an American writer and Black Studies scholar. His novels include "Harlem Mosaics" (a novel about Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes), and "Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral" (an antinovel about how myths create us while we create them). He also publishes short miscellany on the website Catachreses (catachreses.com). He spent twelve years working with experimental off-Broadyway and off-off-Broadway theater in New York City, and now lives in Stuttgart, Germany with his wife and two daughters, while teaching at the University of Stuttgart, writing a dissertation, and working on various projects with varying degrees of success.