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Loading... Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theoryby Houston A. Baker Jr.
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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. With extensive reference to economic and historical facts and to the contributions of symbolic anthropology, Marxist criticism, semiotics, and deconstruction, he discusses, among others, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. In these exemplary analyses, Baker shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. -- From publisher's description. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)810.9896073Literature English (North America) American literature History and criticism of American literature For and by racial, ethnic, national groups Other groups Africans People of African descent In North America African-AmericansLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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