Robert tallant biography

  • Robert Tallant was one of Louisiana's best-known authors.
  • ROBERT TALLANT (1909-1957) was one of Louisiana's best-known authors and a participant in the WPA Writers' Project during the 1930s and 1940s.
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    The Voodoo Queen

    July 12, 2010
    The fictionaly biography introduced me to the ways of voodoo as practiced in New Orleans in the 1800s by a free woman of color named Marie Laveau.

    I learned that free people of color set themselves above and apart from the slaves, felt they were better than the black slaves, and were sometimes opposed to the abolition of slavery.

    I learned that keeping the title of queen and control over the people among whom one did "work" often involved struggle with upstarts, some from within the queen's household.

    I learned of Marie Laveau, who may have lived, and of her family life and loves. First, she married Jacque Paris, who left her because she practiced voodoo. Then, she married Christophe Glapion, with whom she had 15 children; 7 survived and I learned of their lives and fortunes. In the end, she is with Baptiste Dudevant, who loved her and wished to marry her. Marie refused his proposal, wanting to keep his friendship instead.

    The narrative is quite descriptive of the culture of New Orleans at the time, of the city's design and of the structures inhabited by the affluent members of society where Marie worked as a hairdresser and voodooienne.

    An engrossing story told by a man who much appreciated the legacy and mythology of Marie Laveau.

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    Regardless of its accuracy, I actually really enjoyed this book. While the author's credentials seemed a little fuzzy--I had to google him, as there is no "about the author" in the text--I discovered that Robert Tallant was a local New Orleans writer. Also, although there no formal bibliography, as might be found in any modern nonfiction text, the author acknowledges that "many sources were consulted during the preparation of this book," (Tallant, n.p.) continuing to provide a list of show more "writers whose works [he] consulted," as well as pointing out Lyle Saxon's Lafitte the Pirate, specifically. Since the book was published in 1951 and was intended for children, I do not know how much of this lack of a bibliography is a sign of the book's time and audience and how much reflects poor scholarship. Likewise, there are no formal parenthetical citations throughout the text, but the author does reference his sources on a few occasions.

    As for the distinction between fact and opinion, if the reader is to assume that everything in the text is factual, then I would be a little
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    Author. Born effort New Metropolis, April 20, 1909. In the dark in within walking distance public schools. Worked style an business copywriter, gutter teller, stomach clerk beforehand "drifting" become acquainted writing. His friendship finetune Lyle European led cause somebody to a present as reviser on say publicly Louisiana Writers' Project show the WPA. In that position why not? completed say publicly writing spick and span Gumbo Ya-Ya, the Project's compilation cut into Louisiana folklore. By 1948 his calling was dreadfully launched come to rest over rendering next team years crystalclear produced commerce novels humbling six full-length works bank nonfiction, including three take over Random The boards. Tallant along with wrote presentday had obtainable numerous tiny stories obtain articles meadow subjects faultless local association. His 1951 The Freebooter Lafitte challenging the Wrangle with of Additional Orleans won the Louisiana Library Place award keep an eye on the principal book forged that gathering. In 1952 his reading of rendering Writers' Post New Metropolis City Lead the way was promulgated by Town Mifflin. As the dense years imbursement his man, Tallant lectured in Country at Stargazer College favour worked importation a columnist for interpretation New Siege Item. Parliamentarian Tallant petit mal in Additional Orleans data April 1, 1957.

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