John Edgar Wideman and Modernity
Subtitle: A Critical Dialogue
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781621904335
Subjects: American literature, african american authors, history and criticism; American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
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"--