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Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature

by Valerie Sweeney Prince

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ISBN13: 9780231134408
ISBN10: 0231134401
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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 blues matrix and a careful examination of the place of home in five classic novels: Native Son by Richard Wright, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, and Corregidora by Gayl Jones.

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< P> Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. This book creates new and sophisticated possibilities for a critical engagement with African American literature by presenting a careful examination of the place of home in five classic novels: < I> Native Son< /I> by Richard Wright, < I> Invisible Man< /I> by Ralph Ellison, < I> The Bluest Eye< /I> and < I> Song of Solomon< /I> by Toni Morrison, and < I> Corregidora< /I> by Gayl Jones.< /P>

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Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. This book creates new and sophisticated possibilities for a critical engagement with African American literature by presenting a careful examination of the place of home in five classic novels: "Native Son" by Richard Wright, "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "The Bluest Eye" and "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison, and "Corregidora" by Gayl Jones.

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ISBN:
9780231134408
Subtitle:
Home in African American Literature
Author:
Prince, Valerie Sweeney
Author:
Sweeney Prince, Valerie
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American - African American & Black
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
Subject:
American - African American
Subject:
African Americans in literature
Subject:
African Americans - Intellectual life
Publication Date:
December 2004
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
160
Dimensions:
8.52x5.98x.57 in. .63 lbs.
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