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Life, Death, and Time in Edward P Jones' The Known World

What interested me most about The Known World was how Jones maintained a sense of tension between time on both the profane and celestial levels through his deceased protagonist Henry Townsend and t...
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Moses--A Man of Many Emotions

“The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins… When he, Moses,...
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The Sanity of Madness in Edward P Jones' The Known World

“In those first days after Henry bought Alice, the patrollers would haul her back to Henry’s plantation, waking him and Caldonia …Come down here and find out about your property’...Henry would come...
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The Freedom of Caldonia and Moses

In Edward P. Jones’ The Known World the relationship between Caldonia Townsend, the wife and widow of Henry Townsend, and Henry’s overseer, Moses, symbolizes the psychological fallout that occurs...
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