1. James Baldwin and John Edgar Wideman
James BALDWIN & John Edgar Wideman I have always felt "We are here on earth to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." This is contrary to life as it relates to James Baldwin essay "Notes of a Native Son"and John Edgar Wideman collection of Homewood stories "Our Time." ... James Baldwin, a writer, poet and a playwright tells of his fathers death and the family life preceding his fathers death; John Edgar Wideman went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and currently is a English Professor at the University of Massachutes at Amherst. ... Through his novels and essays, he voice...
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