Who Set You Flowin?
The African-American Migration Narrative
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:20th Jul '95
£57.00
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Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry and painting; in so doing she carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.
Farah Griffin is a new kind of intellectual of the younger generation. She goes beyond the fashionable mantra of Race, Gender, and Class by concretely situating black people constructing themselves as a heterogeneous community on the move geographically, culturally, politically, and existentially. * Cornel West, Harvard University *
ISBN: 9780195088960
Dimensions: 231mm x 159mm x 23mm
Weight: 544g
244 pages