Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction Main MenuIntroduction: Teaching Edward P. JonesTraversing 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.
Chapter 1: Visualizing Edward P. Jones’s Short Stories
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9721.jpg2018-06-30T18:27:52+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Section 1: Geo-Tagging Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction25Cultural geo-tagging refers to documenting and analyzing geographic characteristics related to short fiction. This process accounts for words used to describe physical environments in short fiction.image_header2018-09-19T23:21:49+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9747.jpg2018-09-19T18:18:37+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Section 2: The Edward P. Jones Dataset5For our analyses of Jones’s short fiction, we used Voyant Tools—a web-based text reading and analysis environment designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public— to create “The Edward P. Jones Dataset.” This dataset tabulates information related to geographic place markers and character traits throughout his stories.image_header2018-09-19T23:22:17+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9748.jpg2018-06-30T18:28:21+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Section 3: Visualizing Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction15image_header2018-09-19T23:22:36+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153