Who Set You Flowin?

The African-American Migration Narrative

Farah Jasmine Griffin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:20th Jul '95

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Who Set You Flowin? cover

Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry and painting; in so doing she carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.

Farah Griffin is a new kind of intellectual of the younger generation. She goes beyond the fashionable mantra of Race, Gender, and Class by concretely situating black people constructing themselves as a heterogeneous community on the move geographically, culturally, politically, and existentially. * Cornel West, Harvard University *

ISBN: 9780195088960

Dimensions: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm

Weight: 522g

248 pages