UID:
almafu_9961980455602883
Format:
1 online resource (226 p.)
ISBN:
9780231508797
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0231508794
Content:
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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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: A House Is Not a Home --
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1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son --
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2. Keep on Moving Don't Stop: Invisible Man --
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3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye --
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4. She's a Brick House: Corregidora --
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5. God Bless the Child That's Got His Own: Song of Solomon --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231134415
Additional Edition:
ISBN 023113441X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231134408
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231134401
Language:
English
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