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...la Durantaye does have European connections: he spent several years traveling and studying in France, Italy, and Germany, and his wife of six months is German...
...la Durantaye draws on this rich background in his Village Voice pieces, the latest of which took famed 20th-century literary theorist Jacques Derrida as its subject—but he also adds a little bit of the nonconventional. In one piece, de la Durantaye traces the cultural significance of the elephant, from Paradise Lost to the eponymous White Stripes album. It was this piece that led the Advocate to label de la Durantaye a “hipster...
...While de la Durantaye recognizes that being a hipster can sometimes be useful, he rejects the epithet for himself...
Severs considers de la Durantaye’s role in the larger world unusual among the faculty...
Though de la Durantaye is often rumored to be of mysterious European origins, he actually hails from East Lansing, Mich., where his family has lived since the sixteenth century. His Midwest rearing was not as parochial, however, as it may sound. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...