The Price of Freedom: Caldonia & Moses in Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World”

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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, that is inherent, when one individual chooses to harbor the life of another in an effort to ascertain financial freedom. From the outset Jones presents Caldonia […]

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The hardest thing about being a writer is making good use of your time.Time is a writer’s most precious commodity, after imagination—and maybe even before.For it is in the conservation and consolidation creating an abundance of time, that our imaginations percolate. I would imagine this is the way it is for all artists. Yet for

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The Sanity of Madness in Edward P. Jones’ ‘The Known World’

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“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 down [and help] …Alice up… [then] sprawled …in the dirt after [the patrollers] had run her back…The patrollers would…ride away [decrying] among themselves…This

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Life, Death, and Times in Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World”

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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 the supporting character, Townsend’s slave, Moses. While the novel centers on Henry Townsend, a former slave, who upon gaining his freedom purchases slaves

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