Though There Be Giants The Ghetto Pastoral Mode by Donald M. Shaffer PAPERBACK

Though There Be GiantsThe Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels\nAuthor(s): Donald M. Shaffer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496855985, 978-1496855985\nSynopsis\nThe African American Great Migration novel emerged as a popular mode of fiction in the 1920s. Not surprisingly, the decade that saw both the Harlem Renaissance as well as the thunderous onset of the Jazz Age also provided the backdrop for Black migrant stories of personal triumph and transformation set in the symbolically potent urban landscape of Americas iconic cityscapes. While these novels represented the powerful symbol of the northern city as a proverbial Promised Land, they also reflected the urban pastoral conflict that defined the Black migrant experience. These novels marshaled a variant of the urban pastoral mode that historian Michael Denning has termed the \""ghetto pastoral.\""\n\n In Though There Be Gi.