The Homewood Trilogy - John Edgar Wideman

Category: Anthology, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Black History Pennsylvania United States

Written by John Edgar Wideman
Read by Rhett Samuel Price, Cary Hite, Kevin R. Free
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

From master of language John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.

The narratives in Damballah (1981) examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America. The novels Hiding Place (1981) and Sent for You Yesterday (1983) personalize and interrogate that history’s presence in the contemporary lives of Homewood people and all Americans.

Deeply concerned that designations such as “economically oppressed” or “Black” continue to dismiss and marginalize rather than embrace communities like the one in which he was raised, John Edgar Wideman—employing words on the page as his weapon—has dedicated himself to recording the weight, beauty, complexity, and justice that he believes Homewood’s voices, stories, and lives have earned and deserve.

20 hrs and 19 mins
February 13, 2024