Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature

Valerie Sweeney Prince

Paper, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13441-5
$28.50 / £17.00

February, 2005
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13440-8
$80.50 / £47.50

Introduction: A House Is Not a Home

1. Living (Just Enough) for the City: Native Son

2. Keep on Moving Donít Stop: Invisible Man

3. Get in the Kitchen and Rattle Them Pots and Pans: The Bluest Eye

4. Sheís a Brick House: Corregidora

5. God Bless the Child Thatís Got His Own: Song of Solomon

Related Subjects

• American Literature

About the Author

Valerie Sweeney Prince is an assistant professor of English at Hampton University. She lives in Hampton, Virginia.

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