The Homewood Trilogy (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: John Edgar Wideman
- First Published: 1981
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
The Work
In The Homewood Trilogy, which comprises the short-story collection Damballah and the novels Hiding Place and Sent for You Yesterday, John Edgar Wideman re-creates Homewood, the black section of Pittsburgh, and describes the myriad relationships among ancestors and a living African American family in the hundred years since slavery. Damballah is an African voodoo god, “the good serpent of the sky.” The hero of the trilogy is John French, who specializes in a kind of benevolent fatherhood. Wideman’s return to Homewood through these...
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