Appreciation of John Edgar Wideman’s Daddy Garbage

Analysis of John Edgar Wideman’s Daddy Garbage

“Daddy Garbage” is the second story in John Edgar Wideman’s collection Damballah, the second book in Wideman’s Homewood Trilogy. “Daddy Garbage” follows “Damballah,” a tale of an African slave who, before his murder in 1852, transfers the African spiritual legacy… Read More ›