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Understanding Edward P. Jones (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
James W. Coleman
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Description for Understanding Edward P. Jones (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
hardcover. 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. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction.
Though Jones's first work was published in 1976, his career developed slowly. While he worked for two decades as a proofreader and abstractor, Jones published short fiction in such periodicals as Essence, the New Yorker, and Paris Review. His first collection, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, ... Read more
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction.
Though Jones's first work was published in 1976, his career developed slowly. While he worked for two decades as a proofreader and abstractor, Jones published short fiction in such periodicals as Essence, the New Yorker, and Paris Review. His first collection, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611176445
SKU
V9781611176445
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About James W. Coleman
James W. Coleman is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. 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, ... Read more
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