Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama

by Robert B. Stepto

Book Overview

In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass's Narrative to W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050967
• ISBN13: 9780674050969
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"