LEADER 03861nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910777684403321 005 20210603013556.0 010 $a0-231-50879-4 024 7 $a10.7312/prin13440 035 $a(CKB)1000000000455600 035 $a(EBL)909055 035 $a(OCoLC)60934860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145716 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10026813 035 $a(PQKB)10518494 035 $a(DE-B1597)459369 035 $a(OCoLC)979776385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231508797 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183365 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL845194 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909055 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000455600 100 $a20040416d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBurnin' down the house$b[electronic resource] $ehome in African American literature /$fValerie Sweeney Prince 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-13441-X 311 0 $a0-231-13440-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: A House Is Not a Home --$t1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son --$t2. Keep on Moving Don't Stop: Invisible Man --$t3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye --$t4. She's a Brick House: Corregidora --$t5. God Bless the Child That's Got His Own: Song of Solomon --$tIndex 330 $aHome 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American families in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aDwellings in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aHome in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American families in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aDwellings in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aHome in literature. 676 $a813.009/3552 700 $aPrince$b Valerie Sweeney$01555632 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777684403321 996 $aBurnin' down the house$93817684 997 $aUNINA