Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman

by James W. Coleman

During his career as a writer-intellectual, John Edgar Wideman in his personal life has overcome feelings of alienation from the black community and has reoriented himself as a participant in black culture. In his fiction Wideman has affected a similar shift, using modernism and postmodernism to bring his intellectual characters out of their isolation and into contact with the needs, concerns, and traditions of black people. Before he could write...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604738464
• ISBN13: 9781604738469
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"