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D. Quentin Miller
Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. In Understanding John Edgar Wideman…
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Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience. Writing for me is a way of opening up, he states in one of…
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John Edgar Wideman
Major literary figure and "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," a daunting, haunting reality…
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Keith E. Byerman
Through its coverage of Wideman’s life from several generations back to the present and explanations of how Wideman makes use of life experiences, this book breaks down barriers for new…
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Keith Eldon Byerman
Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for John Edgar Wideman’s Fever, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for John Edgar Wideman’s Beginning of Homewood, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
James W. Coleman
Offers the first comprehensive study of John Edgar Wideman and his novels, and shows him to be a writer emerging as a major figure in black and American literature. It…
Priscilla Ramsey
John Edgar Wideman’s Literary Genius Priscilla R. Ramsey has designed her research and critical interpretation in this book so that her writing can extend its reach to popular reading audiences…
Navigating a range of subjects and tone, Wideman challenges the boundaries of traditional forms and delivers immersive narratives that touch the very core of what it means to be alive…
*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern master of language (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story…
A rare triumph (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures…
By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of…
A stunning collection of all new stories from the twice winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - essential reading for understanding the state of America today
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Widemans fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoirto evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of TheWretched of the Earth and acute critic of…
The seminal memoir from John Edgar Wideman, one of the standout black American writers of the twentieth century.
A stunning collection of all new stories from the twice winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - essential reading for understanding the state of America today.
An award winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett s…
Wideman traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till–a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett’s murder–presenting an … exploration of…
Eleven people - five of them children - are killed in west Philadelphia when 6221 Osage Avenue is bombed out of existence. One small boy is seen to escape the…
In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman's ongoing contribution by offering these…
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for ashort fiction, John Wideman has compiled an anthology featuring stories from each of the past winners.
From the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice comes this redemptive, healing love story that celebrates the survival of an endangered urban black community and the ways in…
In plague-ridden 18th-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher’s search for an endangered African woman plunges them both into the spiraling nightmare of a society splitting itself into white and…
Tracie Church Guzzio
Provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman’s entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Tracie Church Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes…
Stephen Casmier
The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform…
Forged from the basic elements of sport - energy, movement and rhythm - the poems in this anthology reflect something universal; sport as metaphor, sport as a struggle, and sport…
A powerful and stunning (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and…
A Study Guide for John Edgar Wideman’s What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide…
Daniel D. Challener
What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child’s success and resilience . The source of information…
W.E.B. Du Bois
Nathan Huggins prepared the notes which appear at the end of this volume –P. [vii].
From John Edgar Wideman, a master [who] boldly subverts what a short story can be (Publishers Weekly) comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael…
Richard Wright
The restored text established by the Library of America.
Klaus H Schmidt
Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Untersuchung von Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen der Marginalitatsthematik in der schwarzamerikanischen Erzahltradition. Obwohl die Figur des Aussenseiters zu den eingefuhrten Motiven gehort, fand die narrative…
