Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction Main MenuIntroduction: Teaching Edward P. JonesVisualizing Edward P. Jones’s Short FictionThis project contains three ArcGIS Maps and four Tableau Public Visualizations. understand the contexts through which Jones uses the nation’s capital as the backdrop for his fictional stories.Traversing the Known WorldLost in the City: A Multimedia Literary AnalysisThe following essays explore the life experiences Jones captures in his 1992 collection, "Lost in the City", while challenging and reinforcing normalized representations of the Black community.All Aunt Hagar's Children: A Multimedia Literary AnalysisThe following essays explore the life experiences Jones captures in his stories while challenging and reinforcing normalized representations of the Black community.Project ConclusionJones’s stories draw the reader into the lives of every-day residences of DC. Although the struggles and triumphs of Jones’s characters are not unique to his writing, binding the characters’ identities across time to the geographic location is.About this BookCitation and Copyright InformationMedia CreditsThis page provides information about the creators and owners of media items used in this work.Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Peace Ossom-Williamson714a6c177d5907ee353132b696c561fcea32da82Published by Publishing Without Walls, Urbana, Ill., part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network.
All Aunt Hagar's Children Video
12018-06-10T18:32:12+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153114Mohammed 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.plain2019-02-22T10:40:21+00:00Jay ParkA Reviewerecb458192daa317dd112b745ee8c78c5dcfb198b
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1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9675.jpg2018-06-30T17:59:15+00:00Introduction: A Literary Analysis of All Aunt Hagar's Children31Edward 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.image_header2019-02-19T17:08:46+00:00
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.