Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman

Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman by James W. Coleman During his career as a writer-intellectual, John Edgar Wideman in his personal life has overcome feelings of alienation from the black community and has reoriented himself as a participant in black culture. In his fiction, as James W. Coleman, the author of this study, shows, Wideman has effected a similar shift, using modernism and post-modernism to bring his intellectual characters out of their isolatio...