Ride out the wilderness : geography and identity in Afro-American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1987]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Landscapes in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Table of Contents:

Go in the wilderness. We'll stand the storm : slave songs and narratives
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
Way up on the mountain. Rocks gonna cry out : James Baldwin. Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison.