Understanding Edward P. Jones

A comprehensive survey of the life and works of an acclaimed African American writer

About the author

James W. Coleman is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his B.A from Virginia Union University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Coleman is the author of Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman, Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction, and Writing Blackness: John Edgar Wideman's Art and Experimentation.

Summary

Analyses Edward P. Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Following an overview of Jones's life, influences, and career, James W. Coleman provides an introduction to the technique of Jones's fiction, which he likens to a tapestry, woven of intricate, varied, and sometimes disparate elements.

Product details

• Authors: James W Coleman, James W. Coleman
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781611176445
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-644-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies