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Without adding a word (other than the title Juneteenth ), he has culled a nugget that gives a sense of what Ellison was up to all those years without harming any of the alternative conceptions of the work that are bound to emerge.
The turning point for their relationship was a celebration of Juneteenth Day, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned that the Civil War was over and, two and a half years after the fact, that President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The New Yorker excerpts Ralph Ellison's posthumous novel Juneteenth , the story of a boy of mixed race who denies his black heritage and becomes a racist senator.
Crucial information is delayed and denied, which brings us back to the motif of "Juneteenth," the day when slaves found out they'd been free for two and a half years.
The griping about Juneteenth even before publication makes it clear that Callahan has taken the side of readers.