The Homewood Trilogy (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: John Edgar Wideman
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century to the 1980’s
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
Places Discussed
*Homewood. Long-established black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three volumes brought together to form The Homewood Trilogy are set in, or circle around, this black section of Pittsburgh. As John Edgar Wideman writes in his preface to the volume, the trilogy offers an investigation from many angles, “not so much of a physical location, Homewood . . . but of a culture, a way of seeing and being seen. Homewood is an idea, a reflection of how its inhabitants act and think.”
The three volumes of The Homewood...
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