“The Father-Son Paradigm as Microcosm of Diaspora: Theme, Style, and Structure in John Edgar Wideman’s Fiction”
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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4191
- eisbn: 9782869064690
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Jacqueline Berben-Masi, « “The Father-Son Paradigm as Microcosm of Diaspora: Theme, Style, and Structure in John Edgar Wideman’s Fiction” », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4191
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The parameters of the present study include the whole of John Wideman’s works. First, from haunting allusions to the scattering of formerly united African communities taken into slavery, we encounter reliving the Middle Passage in Hurry Home and again in The Cattle Killing. Of particular interest, there is the inescapable identification between the Jewish and African holocausts, linked to Diaspora, “lest we forget” in Hurry Home and Sent for you Yesterday. Next, the destruction of family bond...