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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    Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination

    Florida State University
    2009
    201 pages

    Tatia Jacobson Jordan

    A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

    Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination follows the life and literary presence of the legendary figure, Marie Laveau. This female spiritualist lived in antebellum Louisiana from 1801-1881. After her death, her legend has continued to grow as evidenced by her presence in contemporary print and pop culture and the tens of thousands of visitors to her grave in New Orleans every year. Here, I contextualize Laveau in a pre-Civil war America by looking at the African American female in print and visual culture. I trace the beginnings of several tropes in literature that ultimately affect the relevancy of the Laveau figure as she appears and reappears in literature beginning with Zora Neale Hurston’s inclusion of Laveau in Mules and Men. I offer close readings of the appearance of these tropes in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, interrogate her connection to Caribbean lore in Tell My Horse, and show the evolution of this figure in several of Hurston’s

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