The Homewood Trilogy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: John Edgar Wideman
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Short-story collection and two novels
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Alienation, Robbery or robbers, Storytelling
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
The Homewood Trilogy collects in a single volume works originally published individually but conceptualized as interdependent fictions about the specific African American community in Pittsburgh where Wideman was raised. Originally published in the early 1980's, they resulted from Wideman's rediscovery, while attending his grandmother's 1973 funeral, of his childhood community's richly evocative history. To keep faith with his source material, he initially chose to issue these three volumes as Avon paperbacks rather than in hardcover to improve their accessibility to the black...
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