John Edgar Wideman and Modernity
A Critical Dialogue
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Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781621904335
- ISBN-101621904334
- Library of Congress Control Number2018043104
- OCLC Control Number1039480341
- Better World Books9781621904335
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38397935M
Classifications
- LCCPS3573.I26Z67 2018
- LCCPS3573.I26 Z67 2019
Description
"In this book, Michel Feith positions John Edgar Wideman as a major critic of western modernity within African American literature. Feith presents Wideman's case against ghettoization, prisons, and the diasporic sense of history that emerges in his novels in unique and complex ways. Feith interprets these traits as at times a wholesale rejection of western modernity and at others a reorientation toward the minority viewpoint. Feith examines Wideman's novels consistently in light of The Cattle Killing, widely regarded as his magnum opus"--
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