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portada Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Año
2026
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
400
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
Dimensiones
21.27 x 13.97 x 1.63 cm
ISBN13
9781668036389

Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 (en Inglés)

John Edgar Wideman (Autor) · Scribner · Tapa Blanda

Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 (en Inglés) - John Edgar Wideman

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Reseña del libro "Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 (en Inglés)"

In this first-ever collection of nonfiction by John Edgar Wideman, a “towering figure in American literature” (The Nation), five decades of cultural and literary criticism paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a generational talent.

“Wideman is a writer of titanic skill.” —4Columns

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, this first-time collection from his extensive body of long-form journalism and biographical essays offers readers 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 American culture, politics, and identity.

Through 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 life in the United States. The result is an “essential chronicle of the American experience” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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