SOURCE: "Exorcizing the Demons: John Edgar Wideman's Literary Response," in Hollins Critic, Vol. XXIX, No. 5, December, 1992, pp. 1-10.
Saunders is a professor of English at Purdue University and critic. In the following essay, he surveys Wideman's works, delineating the author's response to the inherent dualities of sociology, psychology, and image faced by African Americans.
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