LEADER 04105cam 2200541 i 4500001 ocn927379976 003 OCoLC 005 20160921043151.8 008 160610s2016 scu b s001 0deng 010 2016016089 040 DLC |erda |beng |cDLC |dYDX |dYDXCP |dBDX |dBTCTA |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dCOO |dSTF |dZCU |dNYP 020 9781611176445 |qhardcover 020 1611176441 |qhardcover 020 |z9781611176452 035 40026499102 035 (OCoLC)927379976 042 pcc 043 n-us-dc 050 00 PS3560.O4813 |bZ34 2016 082 00 813/.54 |223 084 LIT004040BIO007000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Coleman, James W. |q(James Wilmouth), |d1946-2019 |eauthor. |=^A504839 245 10 Understanding Edward P. Jones / |cJames W. Coleman. 264 1 Columbia, South Carolina : |bUniversity of South Carolina Press, |c[2016] 300 124 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Understanding contemporary American literature 520 "In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction. Though Jones's first work was published in 1976, his career developed slowly. While he worked for two decades as a proofreader and abstractor, Jones published short fiction in such periodicals as Essence, the New Yorker, and Paris Review. His first collection, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and subsequent books, including The Known World and All Aunt Hagar's Children, received similar accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Following an overview of Jones's life, influences, and career, Coleman provides an introduction to the technique of Jones's fiction, which he likens to a tapestry, woven of intricate, varied, and sometimes disparate elements. He then analyzes the formal structure, themes, and characters of The Known World and devotes a chapter each to the short story collections Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar's Children. His discussion of these volumes focuses on Jones's narrative technique; the themes of family, community, and broader tradition; and the connections through which the stories in each volume collectively create a thematic whole. In his final chapter, Coleman assesses Jones's encompassing outlook that sees African American life in distinct periods but also as a historical whole, simultaneously in the future, the past, and the present."-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-119) and index. 600 10 Jones, Edward P. |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A611606 600 10 Jones, Edward P. |xTechnique. |=^A611606 600 17 Jones, Edward P. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00292007 |?UNAUTHORIZED 650 0 African American authors |xHistory and criticism. |=^A102924 650 0 African Americans |zWashington (D.C.) |xSocial life and customs. |=^A989916 650 0 African Americans in literature. |=^A49990 650 0 American fiction |xAfrican American authors. |=^A17491 650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM |xAmerican |xAfrican American. |2bisacsh 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |xLiterary. |2bisacsh 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 |iOnline version:Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946- author. |tUnderstanding Edward P. Jones. |dColumbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2016 |z9781611176452 |w(DLC) 2016028278 830 0 Understanding contemporary American literature. |=^A224489 949 |i30372016596345 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s39.99 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 4588251