SOURCE: "Promised Land and Wasteland in John Edgar Wideman's Recent Fiction," in Revue Francaise D'Etudes, Vol. XVI, No. 48-49, April-June, 1991, pp. 259-70.
Berben is writer and educator at the Université de Nice. In the following essay, she uses examples from Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, to illustrate her explication of the significance of land in Wideman's fiction.
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