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Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rodgers, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Richard), 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Rural-urban migration in literature.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > In literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the great migration novel form
  • The early migration novel
  • Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
  • The fugitive migrant novel's critique of ascent
  • The communal migrant's recuperation of immersion
  • Epilogue : Post-Ellison migration novels.