Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald M. ShafferSeries:Margaret Walker Alexander African American StudiesPublish date:1/5/2026Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496855985ISBN-10:1496855981UPC:9781496855985Book Category:Literary Collections, Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, American, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCEB4B2CJS
Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels
The African American Great Migration novel emerged as a popular mode of fiction in the 1920s. Not surprisingly, the decade that saw both the Harlem Renaissance as well as the thunderous onset of the Jazz Age also provided the backdrop for Black migrant stories of personal triumph and transformation set in the symbolically potent urban landscape of America's iconic cityscapes. While these novels...
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496855985ISBN-10:1496855981UPC:9781496855985Book Category:Literary Collections, Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, American, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCEB4B2CJS
Donald M. Shaffer is director of the African American Studies Program as well as mentor to Presidential Scholars and associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity, published by University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in The...
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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