John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life : Only Connect
Family and racial history are the sap of John Wideman’s 21-volume corpus. Fatheralong’s subtitle, A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society offers a key to Wideman’s works, memoirs as well as fictions. Writing to Save a Life starts from memories of Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and exoneratio...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:babel_7902 https://doi.org/10.4000/babel.7902 urn:doi:10.4000/babel.7902 en https://journals.openedition.org/babel/7902 2020-01-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/d5ce https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life : Only Connect Babel Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2263-4746 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1277-7897 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/babel Julien, Claude histoire résilience racisme étasunien mémoire raciale history resilience American racism racial memory Family and racial history are the sap of John Wideman’s 21-volume corpus. Fatheralong’s subtitle, A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society offers a key to Wideman’s works, memoirs as well as fictions. Writing to Save a Life starts from memories of Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and exoneration of the perpetrators ; then moves on to Louis Till’s execution (Emmett’s father) after a dubiously fair 1945 court martial trial in Italy. Writing to save a Life reopens the court martial file, pinpoints inconsistencies and offers a not unlikely version that fills in the blanks left by official army records. The book finds a peace of sorts, closing on a well known African American folk tale affirming the need to struggle against racial oppression : puny bees resist Brother Bear’s greed. L’histoire familiale et raciale sont la sève des 21 volumes de John Edgar Wideman. Le sous-titre de Fatheralong, Méditation sur les pères et les fils, la race et la société, fournit une clef ouvrant ces œuvres, les mémoires comme les fictions. Écrire pour Sauver une Vie part du souvenir du lynchage d’Emmett Till dont les coupables furent acquittés en 1955, puis s’attache à l’exécution de Louis Till, le père d’Emmett, soldat condamné pour viol et meurtre en 1945 lors d’un douteux procès en cour martiale, en Italie. Écrire pour Sauver une Vie rouvre les minutes du procès et offre une version vraisemblable comblant les vides de l’histoire officielle. Le livre trouve la paix en réaffirmant le besoin de contrer l’oppression raciale : il se ferme sur un conte afro-américain bien connu : les frêles abeilles sont prêtes à lutter contre la gourmandise de Frère Ours. |
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Family and racial history are the sap of John Wideman’s 21-volume corpus. Fatheralong’s subtitle, A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society offers a key to Wideman’s works, memoirs as well as fictions. Writing to Save a Life starts from memories of Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and exoneration of the perpetrators ; then moves on to Louis Till’s execution (Emmett’s father) after a dubiously fair 1945 court martial trial in Italy. Writing to save a Life reopens the court martial file, pinpoints inconsistencies and offers a not unlikely version that fills in the blanks left by official army records. The book finds a peace of sorts, closing on a well known African American folk tale affirming the need to struggle against racial oppression : puny bees resist Brother Bear’s greed. |
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