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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race and American Culture) - Hardcover

Buch 1 von 11: Race and American Culture

Griffin, Farah Jasmine

 
9780195088960: Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race and American Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195088964 ISBN 13: 9780195088960
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry and painting; in so doing she carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Farah Jasmine Griffin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? looks at this migration across a wide range of genres - literary texts, correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues - and identifies the Migration Narrative as a major theme in African-American cultural production. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison and rappers Arrested Development embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture", "a place to be redeemed".

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195088964
ISBN 13 
9780195088960
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
250
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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