Sweet home : invisible cities in the Afro-American novel

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Sweet home : invisible cities in the Afro-American novel

Charles Scruggs

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-286) and index

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ISBN 9780801845024

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This text identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the 20th-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Sport of God" through to Toni Morrison's "Beloved". Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in Afro-American writing from W.E.B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the Depression. He then considers how four post-Harlem Renaissance novelists - Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison - conceive of the modern city. Scruggs shows how these four writers see the Afro-American's relationship to elite, popular and mass forms of culture in city life. He also explores the ways in which their writing presents "alternative spaces" that exist alongside, and often counter to, the visible configurations of the dominant culture.
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:pbk. ISBN 9780801851278

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Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in Afro-American writing from W.E.B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the depression.

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