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A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama / Robert B. Stepto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stepto, Robert B.
- Series:
- W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
- [The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Series from jacket flap.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674050969
- 0674050967
- OCLC:
- 456170015
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