Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature

by Valerie Sweeney Prince

Overview

-- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231508797
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Valerie Sweeney Prince is an assistant professor of English at Hampton University. She lives in Hampton, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A House Is Not a Home
1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son
2. Keep on Moving Donít Stop: Invisible Man
3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye
4. Sheís a Brick House: Corregidora
5. God Bless the Child Thatís Got His Own: Song of Solomon

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Editorial Reviews

This is fertile and exciting theoretical ground... We'll hear from Prince again, and will be dazzled and provoked.

Southern Register - Adam Gussow