Edward P. Jones, the known world: part 2 [The american novel since 1945]

Abstract

Presents part of course, The American Novel Since 1945, when Professor Hungerford starts second lecture on The Known World, and addresses Edward P. Jones's ambitious and ambivalent relation to literacy. Jones shows us the power of narrative to bring together the fragmentation of the world, but is at the same time deeply aware of the fragility of text, all of the ways it can be destroyed, misinterpreted, abused, or lostEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letra