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Ride out the wilderness : geography and identity in Afro-American literature Melvin Dixon
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS153.N5 D58 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Melvin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- American literature--Afro-American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 182 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1987.
- Contents:
- Go in the wilderness. We'll stand the storm : slave songs and narratives
- Down in the lonesome valley. Wake the nations underground : Jean Toomer and Claude McKay. Trouble about my grave : Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and LeRoi Jones. Keep me from sinking down : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones
- Way up on the mountain. Rocks gonna cry out : James Baldwin. Like an eagle in the air : Toni Morrison.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 171-176.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0252014146 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 15107963
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