Abstract: Sent for You Yesterday, having won P.E.N./Faulkner Award as the best work of fiction, is considered to be Wideman’s blues novel in American literary circle. The blues-like elements in this novel is mainly in form. Firstly, the title of the novel is adapted from a piece of blues; secondly, the whole structure of the story is arranged according to the blues; thirdly, the special narration in the novel forms a kind of call-and –response. The blues-like elements in this novel is also in content: the black community is immerged in blues environm...
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Literature