African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman - Image 1

£71.74

Lexington Books African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman

Name: African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman
Brand: Lexington Books
Price: 71.74 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price History & Forecast

Last 19 days • 19 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 19 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £72 (19 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £72 - £72

Price levels: 1 different prices over 19 days

Description

Product Description null Review In the preface to this work Casmier provides a rich review of the scholarly/critical works about John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941). He asserts that critics find a paradox in the scholarship--"the aporia induced by a writer who imbeds autobiographical details in his works but also broadcasts 'telling stories' and 'lies' in deference to the Igbo proverb that he endlessly references" (No story is not true, from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Part). Ever present in Wideman's works is the figure of his brother, a convicted murderer, who not only complicates the works but also helps locate them in the Black Arts tradition. Casmier explores six of Wideman's novels, calling them the functional works of the discredited Black Arts Movement--works that demand a critical approach that responds to them as things in and of themselves. Like most critics, Casmier is interested in improving the accessibility of Wideman's works and increasing his audience. The book is as much about Wideman's craft as it is about the tradition out of which Wideman writes and the urgent messages he deftly embeds in his works. This book can be viewed as an attempt to rescue Wideman from European discourse. A 2019 interview with Wideman is a brilliant supplement to the work. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.-- "Choice" About the Author Stephen Casmier is associate professor in the department of English at Saint Louis University.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1793614601
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 July 2021
Listed Since: 27 March 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lexington Books African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa: 0

Gloria Naylor’s Fiction: Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple

Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a third eye: 1 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison

Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses: 198 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives. Volume II

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories: 7 (Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature)

Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama: 126 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contempo)

The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience

The African Novel in the Context of Combat Poetics: Selected Works of Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Sembene Ousmane and Festus Iyayi

Readings in African American Culture: Resistance, Liberation, and Identity from the 1600s to the 21st Century

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (Heritage)

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics

Handbook of Black Studies

Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite (African Articulations)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

African American Psychology: A Positive Psychology Perspective

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry (Literary Conversations Series)

Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature (New Directions in Southern Studies)

Routledge Black Literate Lives - Historical Perspectives Book