Burnin' down the House Home in African American Literature

Name: Burnin' down the House Home in African American Literature
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ISBN: 9780231134415

ISBN-10: 023113441X

ISBN-13: 9780231134415

Edition: 2004

Authors: Valerie Sweeney Prince, Valerie Sweeney Prince

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Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the northern city as well as to the place of the South in African American literature, few have given specific notice to the site of "home." And in the twenty years since Houston A. Baker Jr.'s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature appeared, no one has offered a substantial challenge to his reading of the blues matrix. Burnin'Down the House creates new and sophisticated possibilities for a critical engagement with African American literature by presenting both a meaningful critique of the…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.81" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction: A House Is Not a Home



Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son



Keep on Moving Donï¿½t Stop: Invisible Man



Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye



Sheï¿½s a Brick House: Corregidora



God Bless the Child Thatï¿½s Got His Own: Song of Solomon