The Beginning of Homewood | Home: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman
In the following interview, Wideman discusses
how the fictional Homewood portrayed in his stories
relates to the real Homewood, his hometown.
I went to Amherst, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1992, to talk with John Edgar Wideman on the U Mass campus, where he teaches a graduate course in creative writing. Wideman’s literary mapping and charting of Homewood’s neighborhood streets and people indicate the complexities and paradoxes of contemporary American urban literature. In discussing his portraits of Homewood in Damballah, Hiding Place, Sent for You Yesterday, and Reuben, we explored the ways in which fictional, constructed landscapes can be read.
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