All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman

by Tracie Church Guzzio

Book Overview

In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes--history, myth, and trauma--throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038334
• ISBN13: 9781617038334
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"