John Edgar Wideman's Homewood Trilogy

When John Edgar Wideman wrote his first three novels - A Glance Awa y (1967), Hurry Home (1970) and The Lynchers (1973) - he received harsh criticism from the practitioners of the Black Arts Movement. These critics like Baraka and Gayle demanded a black nationalistic aesthetic, and they attacked Wid...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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