Sent for You Yesterday | Techniques
The hallmarks of Wideman's style in Sent for You Yesterday are the shifts in point of view and in time, and in the combination of Black English and Standard English. Critics have split in their opinions about the success of these techniques, with some finding the devices confusing and others hailing them as vivid and poetic.
Doot, the narrator who opens and closes the book, begins by describing Brother Tate, a "silent, scat-singing albino man who was my uncle's best friend." Then, in the space of a sentence, the point of view shifts: "I am not born yet. My Uncle Carl and...
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