Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature : a vernacular theory /
Relating the blues to American social and literary history and Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. With extensive reference to economic and historical facts and to the contributions of s...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1984
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Figurations for a New American Literary history: archaeology, ideology, and Afro-American discourse.
- 2. Discovering America: generational shifts, Afro-American literary criticism, and the study of expressive culture.
- 3. A Dream of American form: fictive discourse, Black (w)holes, and a Blues book most excellent.