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The Homewood Trilogy
John Edgar Wideman
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2023-11-14
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Urban & Street Lit
Fiction / African American & Black / General
ISBN
1982148888
9781982148881
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y2_dEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From “master of language” (
The New York Times
) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.
Damballah, Hiding Place
, and
Sent for You Yesterday
provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired
The
New York Times
to name him “one of America’s premier writers of fiction.”
Damballah
’s narratives examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America. The novels
Hiding Place
and
Sent for You Yesterday
personalize and interrogate that history’s presence in the contemporary lives of Homewood people and all Americans.
Deeply concerned that designations such as “economically oppressed” or “Black” continue to dismiss and marginalize rather than embrace communities like the one in which he was raised, John Edgar Wideman—employing words on the page as his weapon—has dedicated himself to recording the weight, beauty, complexity, and justice that he believes Homewood’s voices, stories, and lives have earned and deserve.
In 1983,
The Homewood Trilogy
signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman’s ongoing contribution by offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.