John Edgar Wideman and modernity : a critical dialogue / Michel Feith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feith, Michel, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wideman, John Edgar.

Criticism and interpretation.

Wideman, John Edgar--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 269, pages ; cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In this book, Michel Feith positions John Edgar Wideman as a major critic of western modernity within African American literature. Feith presents Wideman's case against ghettoization, prisons, and the diasporic sense of history that emerges in his novels in unique and complex ways. Feith interprets these traits as at times a wholesale rejection of western modernity and at others a reorientation toward the minority viewpoint. Feith examines Wideman's novels consistently in light of The Cattle Killing, widely regarded as his magnum opus"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: modernity and its discontents

"A terrible denying of the light": the dialectic of enlightenment in The cattle killing

The prison-house of modernity

Are all (hi)stories true? the archival game

Are all (hi)stories true? historiography and fiction

African tropisms: the haunting presence of origins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Feith, Michel, 1966- author. John Edgar Wideman and modernity

ISBN:

9781621904335

1621904334

OCLC:

1039480341