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Critical essays on John Edgar Wideman
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- Creator
- edited by Bonnie TuSmith and Keith E. Byerman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xv, 275 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781572334694, 157233469X
- OCLC
- ocm60931419
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-266) and index.
- The Value of Reading Wideman / Bonnie TuSmith -- Wideman's Career and Critical Reception / Keith E. Byerman -- "Familiar Strangers": The Quest for Connection and Self-Knowledge in Brothers and Keepers / Eugene Philip Page -- Figures of Life in Fatheralong / Claude Fernand Yvon Julien -- Of Basketball and Beads: Following the Thread of One's Origins / Jacqueline Berben-Masi -- Race, Representation, and Intersubjectivity in the Works of John Edgar Wideman / Heather Russell Andrade -- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Jazzing Story in Hoop Roots / Karen F. Jahn -- "Traveling Here Below": John Edgar Wideman's The Island: Martinique and the Strategy of Melancholy / Gerald W. Bergevin -- Queering Blackness: Race and Sexual Identity in A Glance Away and Hurry Home / Keith E. Byerman -- "A Lynching in Blackface": John Edgar Wideman's Reflections on the Nation Question / Ashraf H. A. Rushdy -- Homewood's "Music of Invisibility": John Edgar Wideman's Sent for You Yesterday and the Black Urban Tradition / Denise Rodriguez -- Philadelphia Fire and The Fire Next Time: Wideman Responds to Baldwin / Leslie W. Lewis -- The Individual and the Collective: Threatening Blackness in Wideman's Philadelphia Fire / Stacey L. Berry -- "All My Father's Texts": John Edgar Wideman's Historical Vision in Philadelphia Fire, The Cattle Killing, and Fatheralong / Tracie Church Guzzio -- The Funky Novels of John Edgar Wideman: Odor and Ideology in Reuben, Philadelphia Fire, and The Cattle Killing / Stephen Casmier -- "Ill Seen Ill Said": Tropes of Vision and the Articulation of Race Relations in The Cattle Killing / Jennifer D. Douglas -- "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities / Tyrone R. Simpson II -- Optical Tricksterism: Dissolving and Shapeshifting in the Works of John Edgar Wideman / Bonnie TuSmith