{"product_id":"canaan-bound","title":"Canaan Bound","description":" \u003cbr\u003e       The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from\u003cbr\u003e         their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining\u003cbr\u003e         event of post-emancipation African-American life and a central feature\u003cbr\u003e         of twentieth-century black literature. Lawrence Rodgers explores the historical\u003cbr\u003e         and literary significance of this event and in the process identifies\u003cbr\u003e         the Great Migration novel as a literary form that intertwines geography\u003cbr\u003e         and identity.\u003cbr\u003e       Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright,\u003cbr\u003e         Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such\u003cbr\u003e         as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is\u003cbr\u003e         Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration.\u003cbr\u003e         He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases\u003cbr\u003e         apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the\u003cbr\u003e         historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature\u003cbr\u003e         as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e       In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary\u003cbr\u003e         texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers\u003cbr\u003e         affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues\u003cbr\u003e         for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244416258392,"sku":"9780252066054","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/canaan-bound","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}