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- Book Title
- "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative
- ISBN
- 9780195088977
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195088972
ISBN-13
9780195088977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
49434
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Publication Name
&Quot;Who Set You Flowin'?&Quot; : the African-American Migration Narrative
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Subject
American / African American, Rhetoric, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Race and American Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
94-022860
Reviews
"[An] important book....An extremely impressive book by a young scholar of immense promise."--Choice, "'Who Set You Flowin'?' ... is delicious brain food without the wordy rhetoric.... Thanks to Griffin's writing and analytical skills, 'Who Set You Flowin'?' breaks new ground."--Vibe Magazine, "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, andexistentially."--Cornel West, Harvard University, "[This book]...will will attract a wide readership inside and outside the Academy."--Booklist "Moving brilliantly across a vast range of textual spaces and political geographies...[this book] is in every way an exemplary work of U.S. cultural studies."--Eric Lott,University of Virginia "A bold and brilliant book...that breathes new life into such old pardigms as 'the Great Migration,' 'the rural folk,' and 'the urban masses.' Informative, fascinating, and finely crafted. A pleasure to read."--Ann duCille,Wesleyan University, "Farah Jasmine Griffin looks at modern black migration from an interdisciplinary literary and cultural perspective, giving lavish critical attention to its creative artifacts, the photography, music, and literature that it inspired.... Griffin has written an ambitious study marked by a rareenough contribution of intellectual creativity and rigor. 'Who Set You Flowin'? is excellent."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, "In this new and suggestive study Griffin places many different forms ofexpression into a relationship with each other: Literary texts from PaulLaurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright to Dorothy West, LeRoi Jones,and Toni Morrison, visual arts from Jacob Lawrence's paintings to FSAphotographs, music from Billie Holiday to Stevie Wonder, and varied documentaryevidence are considered part of a larger 'migration narrative' that swept anurbanizing black America in the twentieth century. Inspired by Georg Simmel'sfamous essay 'The Stranger,' this book attempts to reconstruct the inwardness ofthe tension between belonging and alienation, between ancestry and migration,experienced by a people in motion."--Werner Sollors, Harvard University, "In this new and suggestive study, Griffin places many different forms of expression into a relationship with each other: literary texts from Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright to Dorothy West, LeRoi Jones, and Toni Morrison, visual arts from Jacob Lawrence's paintings toFSA photographs, music from Billie Holiday to Stevie Wonder, and varied documentary evidence are considered part of a larger 'migration narrative' that swept an urbanizing black America in the twentieth century. Inspired by Georg Simmel's famous essay 'The Stranger,' this book attempts toreconstruct the inwardness of the tension between belonging and alienation, between ancestry and migration, experienced by a people in motion."--Werner Sollors, Harvard University, "Moving brilliantly across a vast range of textual spaces and political geographies, Farah Griffin flows with the fierce independence and passionate commitment of the migrants whose paths she charts. 'Who Set You Flowin'?' is in every way an exemplary work of US cultural studies."--Eric Lott,University of Virginia, "Who Set You Flowin''...is delicious brain food without the wordyrhetoric....Thanks to Griffin's writing and analytical skills, Who Set YouFlowin'? breaks new ground."--Vibe Magazine, "Griffin has written an ambitious study marked by a rare enoughcombination of intellectual creativity and rigor. "Who Set You Flowin''." isexcellent."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education., "Because Griffin utilizes diverse cultural works, from Billie Holiday,Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Jacob Lawrence, Toni Morrison, and others, asextended examples and for illustrations, she lends to her 'migration narrative'discourse a familiarity that the general reader can identify with, and thatorientation will attract a wide readership inside and outside theAcademy."--Booklist, "Farah Jasmine Griffin looks at modern black migration from aninterdisciplinary literary and cultural perspective, giving lavish criticalattention to its creative artifacts, the photography, music, and literature thatit inspired....Griffin has written an ambitious study marked by a rare enoughcontribution of intellectual creativity and rigor. 'Who Set You Flowin'? isexcellent."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, "Because Griffin utilizes diverse cultural works, from Billie Holiday, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Jacob Lawrence, Toni Morrison, and others, as extended examples and for illustrations, she lends to her 'migration narrative' discourse a familiarity that the general reader can identify with,and that orientation will attract a wide readership inside and outside the Academy."--Booklist, "Moving brilliantly across a vast range of textual spaces and politicalgeographies, Farah Griffin flows with the fierce independence and passionatecommitment of the migrants whose paths she charts. 'Who Set You Flowin'?' is inevery way an exemplary work of U.S. cultural studies."--Eric Lott, University ofVirginia, "Farah Jasmine Griffin has written a bold and brilliant book, destined to assume a prominent place in the realms of American and African-American literary, cultural, and historical studies. In its carefully contextualized, finely nuanced readings of texts as varied as the paintings of JacobLawrence, the poetry of Jean Toomer and Gwendolyn Brooks, the prose of Richard Wright and Toni Morrison, the blues of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, and the rap lyrics of Grand Master Flash and Arrested Development, 'Who Set You Flowin'?' is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship that breathesnew life into such old paradigms as 'the Great Migration,' 'the rural folk,' and 'the urban masses.' Informative, fascinating, and finely crafted. A pleasure to read."--Ann duCille, Wesleyan University, "Along with the book's interdisciplinary focus, 'Who Set You Flowin'?' is particularly valuable for its new insights into well-known literary works.... A finely crafted volume that will undoubtedly be used as a reference work by future scholars. Griffin's generous bibliography and freshreadings of major literary works make the book a valuable addition to the library of anyone concerned with twentieth-century American literature."--American Literature, "[This book]...will will attract a wide readership inside and outside the Academy."--Booklist "Moving brilliantly across a vast range of textual spaces and political geographies...[this book] is in every way an exemplary work of U.S. cultural studies."--Eric Lott, University of Virginia "A bold and brilliant book...that breathes new life into such old pardigms as 'the Great Migration,' 'the rural folk,' and 'the urban masses.' Informative, fascinating, and finely crafted. A pleasure to read."--Ann duCille, Wesleyan University, "[This book]...will will attract a wide readership inside and outside the Academy."--Booklist"Moving brilliantly across a vast range of textual spaces and political geographies...[this book] is in every way an exemplary work of U.S. cultural studies."--Eric Lott, University of Virginia"A bold and brilliant book...that breathes new life into such old pardigms as 'the Great Migration,' 'the rural folk,' and 'the urban masses.' Informative, fascinating, and finely crafted. A pleasure to read."--Ann duCille, Wesleyan University
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed.", Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor , Stranger , and Safe Space , which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed.", Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed."
LC Classification Number
PS374.N4G75 1995
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