Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
A Vernacular Theory
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-226-03536-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-03538-3 | Electronic: 978-0-226-16084-9
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226160849.001.0001
Cloth: 978-0-226-03536-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-03538-3 | Electronic: 978-0-226-16084-9
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226160849.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Figurations for a New American Literary History: Archaeology, Ideology, and Afro-American Discourse
Chapter Two. Discovering America: Generational Shifts, Afro-American Literary Critcism, and the Study of Expressive Culture
Chapter Three. A Dream of American Form: Fictive Discourse, Black (W)holes, and a Blues Book Most Excellent
Conclusion
Notes
Index