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EDWARD P. JONES VIA HIS OWN WORDS: A REVIEW OF HIS INTERVIEWS

Author(s) Dr. Subhashree Ojha, Dr. Tanutrushna Panigrahi
Country India
Abstract This research work reviews the conversations and interviews of Edward P. Jones and through them traces the ways in which Jones's work has evolved and how his ideas on fiction writing, on Washington D.C. as the fictional place, the craft of his fictions and the black lives in America have found shape. Edward P. Jones is the author of two short story collections, Lost in the City (1992) and All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006) and his 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World. Jones has written a few texts but he has been already regarded as one of the major contemporary canonical African-American short story writers because of the portrayal of the new voice of the African-American communities. In all his majority of his interviews Jones emphasises on the need to focus on the kind of unique characters he has created making a symbol out of Washington D.C. His process of imagination and the depiction of the Black life is the eye of these narratives. Edward P. Jones lived in Washington D.C. and in his interviews, he is talking about his experiences at the place and has tried to build a network of his characters and their responses to the place and the city people. He is creating a unique world with the place and the characters making a symbol out of them. While in some of the interviews he talks about the impact of his real-life incidents on these stories, in some he does refute the same. This paper tries to closely read his published interviews and bring significance to the loopholes in order to understand his art and craft and his techniques.
Keywords African-American, Washington D.C, interviews, marginalisation, symbolism
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-05-30
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.46431
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9mttb
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