Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

Author/Contributor(s):	Baker, Houston A
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	06/06/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.