Ride out the wilderness
Subtitle: geography and identity in Afro-American literature
By: Melvin Dixon.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Identity (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature; Landscape in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 171-176.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Go in the wilderness. We'll stand the storm : slave songs and narratives; title: Down in the lonesome valley. Wake the nations underground : Jean Toomer and Claude McKay. Trouble about my grave : Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and LeRoi Jones. Keep me from sinking down : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones; title: Way up on the mountain. Rocks gonna cry out : James Baldwin. Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison.