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Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century.

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This is fertile and exciting theoretical ground... We'll hear from Prince again, and will be dazzled and provoked. -- Adam Gussow Southern Register

Table of 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

Burnin Down the House

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    A Hardback by Valerie Sweeney Prince

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 29/12/2004
      ISBN13: 9780231134408, 978-0231134408
      ISBN10: 0231134401

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century.

      Trade Review
      This is fertile and exciting theoretical ground... We'll hear from Prince again, and will be dazzled and provoked. -- Adam Gussow Southern Register

      Table of 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

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