John Wideman

I would find myself very angry about something, or very unhappy about something and not really know why, and the writing was a way to put some perspective on those very powerful emotions..." says John Edgar Wideman. Wideman is the first writer ever to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award tw...

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Other Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c1982.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Series: In Black And White.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Wideman & His Work (0:47) -- Anxiety Over Teaching Predominantly White Students (1:36) -- Childhood & Prejudice (1:58) -- African-American Social Underclass (1:39) -- Opportunity & Democracy in Black America (1:25) -- Writing Process (1:23) -- Teaching Philosophy, Writing Subjects, & Language (3:05) -- Where Reality Meets Imagination (1:37) -- Modernism & Notions of Time (1:36) -- Negotiating Praise as a "Writer" and as a "Black Writer" (1:24) -- On Being a Black Writer: Critics, Audience, & Position in Literary World (2:26) -- Art as a Survival Tool (1:37) -- Reflections on Personal Hardship (1:42) -- Credits: John Wideman: In Black And White (2:45) 
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520 |a I would find myself very angry about something, or very unhappy about something and not really know why, and the writing was a way to put some perspective on those very powerful emotions..." says John Edgar Wideman. Wideman is the first writer ever to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice-once for Sent for You Yesterday and six years later for Philadelphia Fire. In this program, Wideman explains the connections he makes between the Pittsburgh ghetto of his birth and the short stories in his collection, Damballah. 
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