Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel

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Title:

Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel

Author:

Rodgers, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Richard), 1960-

Personal Author:

Rodgers, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Richard), 1960-

Publication Information:

Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [1997]

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Language:

English

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.

Subject Term:

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.

Narration (Rhetoric)

Geographic Term:

Southern States -- In literature.

ISBN:

9780252023040