Depictions of Home in African American Literature

Depictions of Home in African American Literature

Harris, Trudier

Lexington Books

12/2021

232

Dura

Inglês

9781793649638

15 a 20 dias

526

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Introduction: Home in African American Literature: Difficult to Define, Challenging to Claim

Chapter 1: Movement, Migration, and Homelessness

Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966)

Chapter 2: Where I Live is Not Home

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953); Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970);

Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog (2001)

Chapter 3: Lonely Place, Unwelcoming Space

A. J. Verdelle's The Good Negress (1995)

Chapter 4: A Mother's Desire, A Son's Hell

Daniel Black's Perfect Peace (2010)

Chapter 5: A Mother's Domination, A Family's Submission

Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy (1940)

Chapter 6: Wrapped in Imagination and Desire

Countee Cullen, "Heritage"; Ann Petry, "Mother Africa"; Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959); Alice Walker, "Everyday Use" (1973); Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977); Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata (1998); Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016); James Weldon Johnson; Sterling A. Brown

Conclusion: While We're in This Place . . .
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African American homes;African American Studies;American studies;history;Home in Literature;Literary homespaces;race and home;religion and home;Slavery and home;sociology;Women's studies