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Contemporary Ownership: The mästare, the Slave, and the Self in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World
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DATE November 11, 2003 ACCOUNT NUMBER N/A
TIME 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM AUDIENCE N/A
NETWORK NPR
PROGRAM Fresh Air
Interview: Edward P. Jones discusses his novel, "The Known World"
BARBARA BOGAEV, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Barbara Bogaev, in for Terry Gross.
Edward P. Jones' new novel, "The Known World," is about a little-explored
piece of history. In the antebellum South, some former black slaves chose to
become slave owners themselves. This fact drives Jones' sprawling narrative,
set in an imaginary place, Manchester County, Virginia, in 1840. New York
Times reviewer Janet Maslin says of the book, `With its hard realities and
prescient dreams, with its eloquent restraint and simplicity, "The Known
World" penetrates a realm of contradictions and takes the measure of slavery's
punishments.'
Jones is the author of a book of short stories, "Lost in the City," which won
a PEN/Hemingway Award. It's set in
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In 1992 Edward P. Jones burst on the literary scene with his much-hailed collection of short stories Lost in the City, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Then after a decade-long silence, Jones published his first novel, The Known World. Initially catching reviewers’ attention for its unusual subject matter—the ownership of slaves by a black master in the antebellum South—the novel soon demonstrated its literary qualities as well. Reviewers lauded Jones for the novel’s epic grandeur, vernacular and lyrical prose, fully realized characters, and lively dialogue. Comparing Jones favorably with William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, several critics went so far as to dub Jones a major new force in Southern writing. For The Known World Jones earned a second National Book Award nomination in 2003, though t