A List of Edward P. Jones’s Visualization

By Kenton Rambsy

In the Fall of 2017, I taught a graduate seminar “Lost in the City” where my students and I performed close reads to create a dataset based on the locations and characters mentioned in his two short story collections. We used the data to publish the edited collection Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction that contained seven visualizations related to his stories. 

We later published our dataset to the Black Studies & Digital Humanities Dataverse, and since then, I have collaborated with other scholars to produce visualizations that offer an entry point to Jones’s short story collections for readers to comprehend the several hundred location references. 

Below, I have provided a list of those eleven visualizations. 

• Edward P. Jones Short Story Overview: (Viz by Peace Ossom-Williamson).

• Lost in the City - Character Overview: dialogue by gender (Viz by Peace Ossom-Williamson).

• All Aunt Hagar’s Children - Character Overview:  dialogue by gender (Viz by Peace Ossom-Williamson).

• Visualizing Quadrants in Jones's Short Fiction: place-setting in DC (Viz by Peace Ossom-Williamson).

• Edward P. Jones Heat Map: shows frequency of action in stories (Viz by Ahmed Foggie).

• Lost in the City - GIS Map: shows addresses referenced (Viz by Ahmed Foggie).

• All Aunt Hagar's Children - GIS Map: shows addresses referenced (Viz by Ahmed Foggie).

• Lost in the City - Story Map: plots DC locations in stories (Viz by Kukhyoung Kim).

• All Aunt Hagar’s Children – Story Map: plots DC locations (Viz by Kukhyoung Kim).

• Shifting Demographics in Lost in the City: identifies landmarks and overlays census records.

• Shifting Demographics in All Aunt Hagar’s Children: identifies landmarks and overlays census records.