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Author Prince, Valerie Sweeney

Title Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature / Valerie Sweeney Prince
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 153 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction : a house is not a home -- 1. Living (just enough) for the city : Native son -- 2. Keep on moving don't stop : Invisible man -- 3. Get in the kitchen and rattle them pots and pans : The bluest eye -- 4. She's a brick house : Corregidora
Summary -- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism
African American families in literature.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Dwellings in literature.
Families in literature.
Home in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
African American families in literature
African American women in literature
African Americans in literature
African Americans -- Intellectual life
American fiction -- African American authors
Domestic fiction, American
Dwellings in literature
Families in literature
Home in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231508794
9780231508797
9780231134408
0231134401
9780231134415
023113441X
Other Titles Burning down the house