A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama

Publication Data

• Title A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama
• Author Robert B. Stepto
• Publisher Harvard University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Series from jacket flap.

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.

Topics

• American literature :: African American authors :: History and criticism
• American literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• American literature :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• African Americans :: Intellectual life
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• African Americans in literature

A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama by Robert B. Stepto. ISBN 9780674050969. Published by Harvard University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.