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 WorldAll 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 3: A Literary Analysis of Lost in the City
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9436.jpg2018-06-30T18:15:50+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Introduction: A Literary Analysis of Lost in the City28Edward P. Jones' compiles fourteen short stories in his fiction collection Lost in the City (1992). The stories' events range from the 1950s to the 1980s, actualizing the life experiences within the African American communities of Washington, D.C.image_header2019-01-26T11:34:56+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9482.jpg2018-06-30T18:02:12+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Section 1: Mapping "Lost in the City"26Living in a specific neighborhood not only shapes identity, but also governs the geographical area a person can move within over the course of their life. In "Lost in the City", most of the characters’ physical mobility orbits around their home addresses while their age, class, and gender dictate the range of those orbits. Iimage_header2019-01-26T11:35:22+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9109.jpg2019-01-26T11:37:49+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Character Demographic of "Lost in the City"8plain2019-01-26T11:41:40+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/12241.jpgmedia/_DAR9394.jpg2018-06-30T18:07:56+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153A Literary Analysis of "Lost in the City"22Geographical location becomes an identity marker that determines belonging to an identity group and controls movement within neighborhoods. Accordingly, identity is framed by interactions and attachment to other community members which builds into a shared living experience. Jones stories can be read as attempts to preserve a geographical identity of the Black D.C. in which he grew up.image_header2019-01-26T13:22:48+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153
1media/_DAR9422.jpg2018-09-19T18:00:20+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Section 3: Generational Conflicts5A notable generational rift exists in the stories. The young Black generation grows unattached to the old southern values and tradition of the older Black community. The gap is intensified by a gradual White encroachment that takes place as a result of gentrification and community displacement.image_header2018-10-15T18:29:45+00:00Janet Swatscheno61665aa235060c0c8f3e0f97aedf405f59d3c633
12018-09-19T17:39:24+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Mohammed Ali H Sumili2plain2018-09-19T18:39:54+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153