by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
University of Chicago Press, 1984
Cloth: 978-0-226-03534-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-03535-2
Library of Congress Classification PS153.N5B24
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9896073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"Professor Baker offers the richest analysis we have of black literature in its full cultural context. A superb literary critic, a sophisticated student of culture and society, Baker is himself a very talented writer, deeply engaged in the literary-cultural 'journey' he describes. The result is a major work of interdisciplinary scholarship and humanistic criticism which will remain for years to come an authoritative treatment of the subject. The Journey Back is a landmark not only in the study of black literature but in American studies in general. No one interested in our culture can afford to ignore it."—Sacvan Bercovitch, Columbia University