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Sweet home : invisible cities in the Afro-American novel / Charles Scruggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scruggs, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- City and town life in literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Home in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in Afro-American writing from W.E.B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the depression.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801845025
- OCLC:
- 26503146
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