Damballah
short stories by Wideman
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discussed in biography
- In John Edgar Wideman: Books and teaching career
…a collection of short stories, Damballah (1981), the trilogy also examines the impact of slavery on African Americans. The three works received praise from many critics, and Sent for You Yesterday was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In Brothers and Keepers (1984), Wideman’s first nonfiction book, he contemplates the…
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