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What is of moment here is how much in these stories Ellison struggled to find his own voice, not to replicate, say, the voice of Richard Wright, but to use Wrightian elements in an Ellisonian way, as he did in "A Party Down at the Square," a story about a lynching and an airplane crash told from the point of view of a visiting white adolescent.
Only Juan Williams ( Fox News Sunday ) seemed rattled by the pundits' collective vehemence, calling their swarming an "electronic lynching."
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.
And ER was talking about the redress of some of the more shameful circumstances of pre-war life: lynching, child labor, total segregation, pervasive poverty.
I believe it was a lynching.
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