A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stepto, Robert B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Series:	W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
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.

Table of Contents:

Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and the search for patrimony
W.E.B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the search for race : school house blues
Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, and difference
A greyhound kind of mood
Sharing the thunder : the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass
Willard Savoy's Alien land : biracial identity in a novel of the 1940s
Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives.