TY - BOOK ID - 56390840 TI - Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel PY - 1997 SN - 0252023048 9780252023040 0252066057 9780252066054 PB - Urbana ; Chicago University of Illinois Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - American literature KW - American fiction KW - Literature and society KW - African Americans KW - Rural-urban migration in literature KW - Migration, Internal, in literature KW - City and town life in literature KW - African Americans in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - African American authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Intellectual life KW - Southern States KW - In literature. KW - African American authors KW - Migration [Internal ] in literature KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - Southern States in literature KW - Attaway, William A. KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Johnson, James Weldon KW - Bland, Alden KW - Wright, Richard KW - Thurman, Wallace KW - Toomer, Jean KW - Kelley, William Melvin KW - Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt KW - Ellison, Ralph Waldo KW - White, Walter Francis KW - McKay, Claude KW - Hurston, Zora Neale KW - Morrison, Toni KW - West, Dorothy KW - Slavery in literature KW - Slaves' writings [American ] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56390840 AB - Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory. ER -