Research Catalog

Title

You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.

Author

Wideman, John Edgar

Publication

• New York : Scribner, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xxvii, 462 pages : genealogical table; 22 cm

Summary

• Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form--illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
• When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, he joined a list of esteemed writers-from Eudora Welty to George Saunders-who are acknowleged masters of the short story. Here he gathers a representative selection from his career, stories that challenge what defines, separates, and unites us, and to quote Wideman, seek to "deconstruct the given formulas of African American culture and life." Wideman's stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and to historic Philadelphia, the comtemporary world, and the ancient past. He explores the lives of his characters and the pressures that shape them. "John Edgar Wideman's short stories render an internal and external world as vivid and intricate as Faulkner's as emotionally painful as Baldwin's, and as unique as his own streets and stoops of Homewood," write the PEN/Malamud Award selection committee. You Made Me Love You, composed of fifty-seven stories drawn from past collections, is introduced by Walton Muyumba, a Wideman scholar and associate professor of English at Indiana University. In its totality, this volume celebrates the lifelong significance of a major American writer's essential contribution to a form. --

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• African Americans > Fiction
• African Americans

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Short stories.
• Short stories, American – African American authors.
• American fiction – African American authors.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / by Walton Muyumba -- Damballah (1981). To Robby ; Damballah: good serpent of the sky ; Begat chart ; Damballah ; Daddy garbage ; Lizabeth ; Across the wide Missouri ; Tommy ; Solitary -- Fever (1989). Doc's story ; Surfiction ; Fever -- All stories are true (1992). All stories are true ; Backseat ; What he saw ; Newborn thrown in trash and dies ; Welcome -- God's Gym (2005). Weight ; The silence of Thelonious Monk ; Are dreams faster than the speed of light ; Who invented the jump shot ; What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Briefs (2010). Witness ; To Barry Bonds: home run king ; War stories ; Close ; Party ; Automatic ; Writing ; Breath ; Message ; Manhole ; Martyr ; Ruins ; Cleaning up ; You are my sunshine ; New work ; Short story ; Swimming ; Answering service ; Ghetto ; Review ; Fall ; Now you see it ; First love suite ; Ralph Waldo Ellison ; Genocide ; Passing on ; Haiku ; Wolf whistle ; Shadow -- American histories (2018). JB & FD ; My dead ; Maps and ledgers ; Williamsburg Bridge ; Nat Turner confesses ; Collage..

Call Number

Sc D 22-44

ISBN

• 9781982148911
• 1982148918

OCLC

1244115493

Author

Wideman, John Edgar, author.

Title

You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Wideman, John Edgar. To Robby.

Wideman, John Edgar. Damballah: good serpent of the sky.

Wideman, John Edgar. Begat chart.

Wideman, John Edgar. Damballah.

Wideman, John Edgar. Daddy garbage.

Wideman, John Edgar. Lizabeth.

Wideman, John Edgar. Across the wide Missouri.

Wideman, John Edgar. Tommy.

Wideman, John Edgar. Solitary.

Wideman, John Edgar. Doc's story.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-44