African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman - Paperback

by Stephen Casmier (Author)

The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.

Author Biography

Stephen Casmier is associate professor in the department of English at Saint Louis University.