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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. (Signed)
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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. (Signed) Paperback - 2001

by Baker, Houston A

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A preeminent scholar of African-American literature offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. Baker argues that the American South and its history of regulatory institutions--particularly that of incarceration--are at the center of the African-American experience.

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Duke University Press Books, 2001-06-06. Paperback. Very Good. 9x5x0. Signed. [Inscribed, signed by author on title page] Softcover. Shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 127 pages, 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* <br><br> Inaugurates a new southern studies with Black experience at the center, through a re-examination of the career of Booker T. Washington, showing incarceration to be the central characteristic of African-American life, even in the case of Tuskegee.
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  • Title Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. (Signed)
  • Author Baker, Houston A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-06-06
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2205310035
  • ISBN 9780822326953 / 0822326957
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 5.83 x 0.37 in (23.39 x 14.81 x 0.94 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Race relations, African Americans - Southern States - Social
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00011129
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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First line

What follows represents a black southern mind navigating oceans and landfalls of memory, ineradicable dilemmas of black modernism, protocols of black male subject formation.

From the rear cover

"Baker offers an original blend of self-reflection, cultural inquiry, social critique, and close textual analysis of a classic book in African American history and literature. This is the most revealing study of "Up From Slavery" that I've ever seen and the most personal and self-revealing piece of writing that Baker has ever published."--William L. Andrews, author of "To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865"

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2001, Page 1514
  • New York Times, 07/08/2001, Page 20

About the author

Houston A. Baker Jr. is the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University and editor of the journal American Literature. In addition to being the author of numerous books of literary criticism--including Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy and Modernism and Harlem Renaissance--and collections of poetry, Baker is the recipient of many awards and distinctions, including eleven honorary doctorates.

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