Entre-deux : la place du mort dans la fiction de John Edgar Wideman
This paper seeks to explore the double discourse on identity in the work of the Afro-American writer John Edgar Wideman, inscribing it in the broader context of a postcolonial double consciousness involving simultaneous, paradoxical gestures of reconstruction and deconstruction. I borrow metaphors f...
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cairn-RFEA_096_0007RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2003-2-page-7?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.096.0007 Entre-deux : la place du mort dans la fiction de John Edgar Wideman Grandjeat, Yves-Charles2003 AppartenanceDouble discourséé culturelleérature afro-américaineératures postcolonialesJ. E. WidemanSilenceAfrican-American literatureBelongingDouble discourseIdentityJ. E. WidemanPostcolonial literaturesSilencefre Revue française d’études américaines | 96 | 2 | 2003-05-01 | p. 7-18 | 0397-7870 RFEA_09683 This paper seeks to explore the double discourse on identity in the work of the Afro-American writer John Edgar Wideman, inscribing it in the broader context of a postcolonial double consciousness involving simultaneous, paradoxical gestures of reconstruction and deconstruction. I borrow metaphors from the game of basketball, at which Wideman excelled, and which has influenced his work both thematically and formally, to follow a network of tensions and ambiguities running through his work. I attempt to relate those tensions to the fundamental predicament of the Afro-American artist writing inevitably both from within and without his original cultural community. I probe the narrative inscriptions, in Wideman’s essays and fiction, of the deeper ironies which turn discourses on cultural reconstruction into statements of cultural exile and loss. I suggest that Wideman’s originality partly lies in his choice to face and tap the full force of the irony, turning his meditative prose into the means for a daring ritual of unmaking.Cairn free access |
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This paper seeks to explore the double discourse on identity in the work of the Afro-American writer John Edgar Wideman, inscribing it in the broader context of a postcolonial double consciousness involving simultaneous, paradoxical gestures of reconstruction and deconstruction. I borrow metaphors from the game of basketball, at which Wideman excelled, and which has influenced his work both thematically and formally, to follow a network of tensions and ambiguities running through his work. I attempt to relate those tensions to the fundamental predicament of the Afro-American artist writing inevitably both from within and without his original cultural community. I probe the narrative inscriptions, in Wideman’s essays and fiction, of the deeper ironies which turn discourses on cultural reconstruction into statements of cultural exile and loss. I suggest that Wideman’s originality partly lies in his choice to face and tap the full force of the irony, turning his meditative prose into the means for a daring ritual of unmaking. |
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