Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction

Ramsby, Kenton; Ossom-Williamson, Peace

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Title

Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction

Author(s)

• Ramsby, Kenton
• Ossom-Williamson, Peace

Contributor(s)

• Harrison, Jade
• Phelps, Lauren
• Foggie, Ahmed
• Clayton Bryant, John
• Chaudhary, Hira
• Dennis, Michael
• Falkenstein, Misty
• Ford, Terrance
• Riojas, Michael
• Ali H Sumili, Mohammed
• Zitting, Angela
• Handon, Desmond
• Dare, Bernadette
• Park, Jay

Issue Date

2019-02-25

Keyword(s)

• Literature
• Black studies

Geographic Coverage

Washington DC

Abstract

Merging the best of distant and close reading, Kenton Rambsy and Peace Ossom-Williamson lead a stunning digital investigation of space and narrative in the short fiction of Edward P. Jones. This edited collection contains essays from graduate students enrolled in a literature seminar at the University of Texas at Arlington. Collectively, they examine Jones’s practice of “literary geo-tagging” to show how this master of literary prose delves into a remembered Washington, DC where the city’s African American population finds itself at the precipice of the gentrification and displacement that would lead to today’s very different city. Caught in this moment, the characters negotiate regional identities and generational conflicts. Exploring Jones’s fiction from Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children, the authors of this collection’s investigations employ mapping and data visualization methods that make novel contributions to critical methods for literary study even as they establish how Jones embeds DC’s geography in his texts. This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.

Publisher

Publishing Without Walls

Series/Report Name or Number

AFRO-PWW

Type of Resource

• text
• dataset

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/pww.10

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright (c) 2019 Kenton Rambsy and Peace Ossom-Williamson, editorial content. Individual chapter copyrights by the contributors.
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except as otherwise indicated.

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