Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel

by Lawrence R. Rodgers

The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from
their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining
event of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature
of twentieth-century black literature. Lawrence Rodgers explores the historical
and literary significance of this event and in the process identifies
the Great Migration novel as a literary form that intertwines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066057
• ISBN13: 9780252066054
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"