The Beginning of Homewood | Style
Narration: Oral Tradition
Wideman’s narrative technique in ‘‘The Beginning of Homewood’’ is related to the development of his Afrocentric point of view. By the time in his career when he was writing the stories that make up Damballah, Wideman had shaken off the single narrator perspective of his earlier fiction and had merged his interest in the modernist prose of Faulkner and James Joyce with his concern to write about the African-American experience. The resulting narrative technique attempts to render in prose aspects of the African-American oral...
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