John Edgar Wideman (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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An intensely lyrical novelist, John Edgar Wideman has also published numerous short stories based upon family members, friends, and neighbors from his childhood community of Homewood, a long-standing all-black subdivision of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Twelve of these pieces are presented as letters in his critically acclaimed collection Damballah (1981), which has also been published with two of his novels as The Homewood Trilogy. Wideman’s autobiographical Brothers and Keepers (1984) blends facts with fictionalized characters and...

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