{"product_id":"canaan-bound-the-african-american-great-migration-novel","title":"Canaan bound: the African-American great migration novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e event of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e of twentieth-century black literature. Lawrence Rodgers explores the historical\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e and literary significance of this event and in the process identifies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e the Great Migration novel as a literary form that intertwines geography\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e and identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780252066054-001","offer_id":43778372337725,"sku":"9780252066054-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/20116713482277.jpg?v=1791379234","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/canaan-bound-the-african-american-great-migration-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}