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Postmodernism, Culture and Class in John Edgar Wideman's Selected Fiction

by Priscilla Ramsey, Ph.D.

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John Edgar Wideman's Literary Genius

Priscilla R. Ramsey has designed her research and critical interpretation in this book so that her writing can extend its reach to popular reading audiences then college undergraduates and Scholars in the academy.



She takes complicated concepts and insights from such theorists as Derrida, Jameson and Eagleton among many other critics.



This text attempts to guide readers through Wideman's meanings without becoming an oversimplified guide book. Rather, this book looks carefully at Wideman's experimental strategies and his configurative designs through his focus on African-American working class experiences. She illustrates how the culture becomes a compensating factor against what would otherwise become social class ennui. Moreover, she looks carefully at his experimentalism as its underlying goals are to mask a political and social critique of Black working class experience.

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Paperback
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Black & White Paperback, 287 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Nov 28, 2009)
ISBN10: 1432718568
ISBN13: 9781432718565
Genre: LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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Priscilla Ramsey, Ph.D.Priscilla Ramsey, Ph.D. has both taught and written about African American Literature and Culture throughout her University career both at Rutgers University and Howard University.



She has published in numerous scholarly journals on such diverse subjects as Marcus Garvey, Nella Larson, Passing Fiction, John A. Williams and many other writers.



Her particular intellectual interests apparent in this text include Critical Theory, African- American and American History as well as psychoanalytic criticism and the Sociology of African-American culture.

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