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UNINA9910816281703321 |
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Autore |
Prince Valerie Sweeney |
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Titolo |
Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature / / Valerie Sweeney Prince |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism |
African American families in literature |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
African American women in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Dwellings in literature |
Families in literature |
Home in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A House Is Not a Home -- 1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son -- 2. Keep on Moving Don't Stop: Invisible Man -- 3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye -- 4. She's a Brick House: Corregidora -- 5. God Bless the Child That's Got His Own: Song of Solomon -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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