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Languages of Home
- Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9781668036372
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1668036371
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Udg. Dato:
18 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2
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Oplagsdato:
18 nov 2025
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Languages of Home

- Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in fiction.

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed since the early 1970s for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, has long been engaged in a project to redefine, from the perspective of an American of color, the wondrous and appalling power of his country’s literary culture and history. Now, curated by him, in this first-time collection from his extensive body of long-form journalism and biographical essays, readers are offered a chance to see and judge for themselves how Wideman has proven himself to be a luminous witness of America’s history.

This volume goes beyond mere compilation; its challenging, insightful critical essays tell the story of a nation in transition—from the shame of legalized human slavery, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the rise of the Obama era, and beyond. Originally featured in publications such as Esquire, Vogue, and The New Yorker, these narratives explore the elusive cores of an American culture, politics, and identity. With his unique depictions of iconic figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Emmett Till, and Michael Jordan, and intimate questioning of his own life, Wideman shares his original views of the changing tides of an American experience.



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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9781668036372
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1668036371
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
18 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
18 nov 2025
Forfatter(e):
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