"Who set you flowin'?" : the African-American migration narrative / Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Farah Jasmine.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Race and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

Rural-urban migration in literature.

Migration, Internal, in literature.

City and town life in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

23 unnumbered pages, 232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Summary:

Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Griffin looks at this migration across a wide range of genres -- the literary texts of Richard Wright and Dorothy West, the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, and the music of Billie Holiday and Arrested Development, as well as photography and correspondence. She identifies the Migration Narrative as a major theme in African-American cultural production, and argues that a dominant portrayal of migration is produced by its historical and political moment.

Contents:

"Boll Weevil in the Cotton/Devil in the White Man": Reasons for Leaving the South

The South in the City: The Initial Confrontation with the Urban Landscape

Safe Spaces and Other Places: Navigating the Urban Landscape

To Where from Here? The Final Vision of the Migration Narrative

New Directions for the Migration Narrative: Thoughts on Jazz.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Linda Roppolo."

"Jacket illustration: Jacob Lawrence, 'The Migration of the Negro, Panel No. 57: The Female Worker was Also One of the Last Grous to Leave the South ..."

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Yale University).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0195088964

0195088972

OCLC:

30893210