Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race and American Culture) - Hardcover

Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195088964 ISBN 13: 9780195088960

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry and painting; in so doing she carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.

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Who Set You Flowin? This is a study of migration as depicted in African-American literature, letters, music and painting. Covering the period 1923-1992, the author identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African-American cultural tradition. Full description

Review:

Farah Griffin is a new kind of intellectual of the younger generation. She goes beyond the fashionable mantra of Race, Gender, and Class by concretely situating black people constructing themselves as a heterogeneous community on the move geographically, culturally, politically, and existentially. (Cornel West, Harvard University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195088964
• ISBN 13: 9780195088960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250