John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life : Only Connect

Family and racial history are the sap of John Wideman’s 21-volume corpus. Fatheralong’s subtitle, A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society offers a key to Wideman’s works, memoirs as well as fictions. Writing to Save a Life starts from memories of Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and exoneratio...

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Main Author: Claude Julien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université du Sud Toulon-Var 2019-12-01
Series:Babel: Littératures Plurielles
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/babel/7902