Canaan Bound – The African–American Great Migration Novel Rodgers Paperback

Canaan BoundThe African-American Great Migration Novel\nAuthor(s): Lawrence R. Rodgers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252066054, 978-0252066054\nSynopsis\n\nThe Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from\ntheir southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining\nevent of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature\nof twentieth-century black literature. Lawrence Rodgers explores the historical\nand literary significance of this event and in the process identifies\nthe Great Migration novel as a literary form that intertwines geography\nand identity.\nDrawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright,\nRalph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such\nas William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is\nEasy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Grea.