03834nam 2200769 a 450 991081628170332120210603013556.00-231-50879-410.7312/prin13440(CKB)1000000000455600(EBL)909055(OCoLC)60934860(SSID)ssj0000116025(PQKBManifestationID)11145716(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116025(PQKBWorkID)10026813(PQKB)10518494(DE-B1597)459369(OCoLC)979776385(DE-B1597)9780231508797(Au-PeEL)EBL909055(CaPaEBR)ebr10183365(CaONFJC)MIL845194(MiAaPQ)EBC909055(EXLCZ)99100000000045560020040416d2004 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrBurnin' down the house home in African American literature /Valerie Sweeney PrinceNew York Columbia University Press20041 online resource (226 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-13441-X 0-231-13440-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexHome 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.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismDomestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAfrican American families in literatureAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican American women in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureDwellings in literatureFamilies in literatureHome in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.African American families in literature.African AmericansIntellectual life.African American women in literature.African Americans in literature.Dwellings in literature.Families in literature.Home in literature.813.009/3552Prince Valerie Sweeney1722110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816281703321Burnin' down the house4122209UNINA