Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction
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Introduction: Teaching Edward P. Jones
Visualizing Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction
This 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 World
Lost in the City: A Multimedia Literary Analysis
The 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 Analysis
The following essays explore the life experiences Jones captures in his stories while challenging and reinforcing normalized representations of the Black community.
Project Conclusion
Jones’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.
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Kenton Rambsy
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Peace Ossom-Williamson
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