The Journey Back - Hardcover

Baker Jr., Houston A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226035344 ISBN 13: 9780226035345

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

"Professor Baker offers the richest analysis we have of black literature in its full cultural context. A superb literary critic, a sophisticated student of culture and society, Baker is himself a very talented writer, deeply engaged in the literary-cultural 'journey' he describes. The result is a major work of interdisciplinary scholarship and humanistic criticism which will remain for years to come an authoritative treatment of the subject. The Journey Back is a landmark not only in the study of black literature but in American studies in general. No one interested in our culture can afford to ignore it."—Sacvan Bercovitch, Columbia University

About this title

About the Author:

Houston A. Baker is Distinguished University Professor and a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. He has served as president of the Modern Language Association and as editor of the journal American Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0226035344
• ISBN 13: 9780226035345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216