Languages Of Home: Essays On Writing, Hoop, And American Lives 1971-2025

  • Author: John Edgar Wideman
  • Narrator: David Sadzin
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 14:29:05
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Synopsis

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in fiction.

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed since the early 1970s for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, has long been engaged in a project to redefine, from the perspective of an American of color, the wondrous and appalling power of his country’s literary culture and history. Now, curated by him, in this first-time collection from his extensive body of long-form journalism and biographical essays, readers are offered a chance to see and judge for themselves how Wideman has proven himself to be a luminous witness of America’s history.

This volume goes beyond mere compilation; its challenging, insightful critical essays tell the story of a nation in transition—from the shame of legalized human slavery, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the rise of the Obama era, and beyond. Originally featured in publications such as Esquire, Vogue, and The New Yorker, these narratives explore the elusive cores of an American culture, politics, and identity. With his unique depictions of iconic figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Emmett Till, and Michael Jordan, and intimate questioning of his own life, Wideman shares his original views of the changing tides of an American experience.

Chapters

  • 021 Languages of Home Chapter 19

    Duration: 10min
  • 022 Languages of Home Chapter 20

    Duration: 20min
  • 023 Languages of Home Chapter 21

    Duration: 29min
  • 024 Languages of Home Chapter 22

    Duration: 11min
  • 025 Languages of Home Chapter 23

    Duration: 37min
  • 026 Languages of Home Chapter 24

    Duration: 06min
  • 027 Languages of Home Chapter 25

    Duration: 10min
  • 028 Languages of Home Chapter 26

    Duration: 21min
  • 029 Languages of Home Chapter 27

    Duration: 25min
  • 030 Languages of Home Chapter 28

    Duration: 51min
  • 031 Languages of Home Chapter 29

    Duration: 05min
  • 032 Languages of Home Chapter 30

    Duration: 01h12min
  • 033 Languages of Home Chapter 31

    Duration: 30min
  • 034 Languages of Home Chapter 32

    Duration: 08min
  • 035 Languages of Home AbouttheAuthor

    Duration: 42s
  • 036 Languages of Home Closing

    Duration: 45s
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