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003			OCoLC
005			20240726105009.0
008			160616s2016 scu ob s001 0 eng
010			_a2016028278
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _epn _cDLC _dYDX _dNT _dP@U _dIDEBK _dEBLCP _dOCLCF _dYDXCP _dOCLCO _dIDB _dOCLCQ _dCNCGM _dAGLDB _dOCLCQ _dMERUC _dOCLCQ _dD6H _dJBG _dVNS _dOCLCQ _dVTS _dRRP _dOCLCQ _dJSTOR
020			_a9781611176452 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
042			_apcc
050	1	4	_aPS3560 _b.U534 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aColeman, James W. _q(James Wilmouth), _d1946- _e1
245	1	0	_aUnderstanding Edward P. Jones /James W. Coleman.
260			_aColumbia, South Carolina : _bUniversity of South Carolina Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (124 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aUnderstanding contemporary American literature
520	0		_a"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.
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600	1	0	_aJones, Edward P. _xCriticism and interpretation.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1086922&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell