Blues, Ideology and Afro-american Literature: A Vernacular Theory,9780226035383

Blues, Ideology and Afro-american Literature: A Vernacular Theory

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ISBN13: 9780226035383
ISBN10: 0226035387
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-02-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Figurations for a New American Literary History: Archaeology, Ideology, and Afro-American Discourse
Discovering America: Generational Shifts, Afro-American Literary Criticism, and the Study of Expressive Culture
A Dream of American Form: Fictive Discourse, Black (W)holes, and a Blues Book
Most Excellent
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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