SOURCE: "'Beyond Discourse': The Unspoken Versus Words in the Fiction of John Edgar Wideman," in Callaloo, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall, 1985, pp. 525-34.
Berben is a critic and an educator at the Université de Nice. In the following essay, she examines Wideman's use of both direct and indirect methods of communicating themes and meanings in Hiding Place.
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