What is the author's style in Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Edgar Wideman?

The language of Brothers and Keepers is divided into two distinct voices. The first voice is John's, the narrator's voice. He is an educated, black man. He graduated from Ivy League school UPenn. He is a successful writer and professor. When John speaks in the novel, the language reflects his higher education and his creative writing skills. He uses difficult vocabulary at times. He uses literary devices such as metaphor. His writing is formal and adheres to the complex rules of grammar. He writes in a grammatically perfect way. His voice is the authority due to his educated language. The meaning that comes from the language is that John is an upper class black male and a professional in society.