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.Lost 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.
1media/12241.jpgmedia/Chapter 2 - Section 2 .jpg2018-06-30T18:27:13+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153The Edward P. Jones Dataset8What type of insight can we gain by taking a bird’s eye view of Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children? This question was the driving premise of our graduate seminar as we explored Jones’s two collections comprised of twenty-eight short stories and more than 235,000 words.plain2018-09-19T16:01:27+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9034.jpg2018-06-30T18:21:56+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Understanding D.C.’s Geography41Washington, D.C. has a fairly simple, yet unique layout. The simplest way of reading a map or navigating through the streets of Washington is by understanding that the city is broken into four different sections – known as quadrants – that are divided by using the Capitol building as the center of the four dividing lines.plain2018-07-17T12:08:31+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/Chapter 2 - Section 3 - 2.jpg2018-06-30T18:23:17+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Northwest and Jones’s Short Fiction12The Northwest (NW) quadrant represents the center of daily life for the characters. Most of the characters in the stories attached their memories of D.C. to their lives in NWimage_header2018-07-17T09:52:08+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153