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100	1	0	_aGrandjeat, Yves-Charles _eauthor
245	0	0	_aIn-Between: Figures of Death in John Edgar Wideman's Fiction
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520			_aThis 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.
690			_aAfrican-American literature
690			_aSilence
690			_aDouble discourse
690			_aBelonging
690			_aPostcolonial literatures
690			_aJ. E. Wideman
690			_aIdentity
786	0		_nRevue française d’études américaines | o 96 | 2 | 2003-05-01 | p. 7-18 | 0397-7870
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2003-2-page-7?lang=en
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