SOURCE: "Fraternal Blues: John Edgar Wideman's Homewood Trilogy," in Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, Fall, 1991, pp. 312-45.
Rushdy is an educator and the author of The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton (1992). In the following essay, he discusses the significance of the narrator gaining his "blues voice" in the Homewood trilogy.
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