A home elsewhere
Subtitle: reading African American classics in the age of Obama
By: Robert B. Stepto.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674036031
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Identity (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and the search for patrimony; title: W.E.B. Dubois, Barack Obama, and the search for race; title: Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, and difference; title: A greyhound kind of mood; title: Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass; title: Willard Savoy's Alien Land: biracial identity in a novel of the 1940s; title: Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives.