Burnin' down the house [[electronic resource] ] : home in African American literature / / Valerie Sweeney Prince
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Prince Valerie Sweeney
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| Titolo: |
Burnin' down the house [[electronic resource] ] : home in African American literature / / Valerie Sweeney Prince
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/3552 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Burnin' down the house |
| ISBN: | 0-231-50879-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777684403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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