Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama

(Part of the The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Series)

by Robert B. Stepto

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In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass's Narrative to W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674050967

ISBN13:9780674050969

Release Date:May 2010

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Discrimination & Racism Ethnic Studies Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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