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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 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

Sprache: Englisch
Identifikatoren: ISBN: 9780231508797
DOI: 10.7312/prin13440
OCLC-Nummer: 979776385, 979776385
Titel-ID: 990369047670206441

Format: 1 online resource
Schlagworte: African American families in literature, African American women in literature, African Americans in literature, African Americans / Intellectual life, American fiction / African American authors / History and criticism, Domestic fiction, American / History and criticism, Dwellings in literature, Families in literature, Home in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American