"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 ...
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"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"--
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New. Octavo. Decorative two-tone green spine and rear board, decorative two-tone green front board with photogaph are all clean and bright. This is a new book that was removed from its shrinkwrap to catalog, but does have a very slight bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 269 pages. No dust jacket, as issued.
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