All Aunt Hagar's Children Video
1 2018-06-10T18:32:12+00:00 Kenton Rambsy 1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153 11 4 Mohammed Ali H Sumili describesJones’s second collection of short fiction, All Aunt Hagar’s Children. In this video, he describes how this collection materializes memories of the Deep South. Moreover, he talks about how Jones connects the identity of his characters in DC to the larger cultural legacies of the South. plain 2019-02-22T10:40:21+00:00 Jay Park A Reviewer ecb458192daa317dd112b745ee8c78c5dcfb198bThis page is referenced by:
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Introduction: A Literary Analysis of All Aunt Hagar's Children
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Edward P. Jones published his second short story collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, in 2006. Like Lost in the City, only two of the 14 stories feature a first-person narrative.
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Edward P. Jones published his second short story collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, in 2006. Like Lost in the City, only two of the 14 stories feature a first-person narrative. Using a primarily third-person perspective, Jones tells story after story of African Americans from the early 1900’s to the 1980’s who have carried their southern lineage northward to reshape the culture of the nation’s capital.
The fourteen stories in the collection span from approximately 1901 (“In the Blink of God’s Eye”) to the early 2000s (“Old Boys, Old Girls”), with most occurring in the 1950s and 60s. This information aids our understanding of the contexts in which the characters operate, but while Jones is skilled at using time to his advantage, concrete dates are often not the intended focus.