The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism

Abstract

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. 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

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Allen Belkind, Houston A. Baker (1981). The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism. World Literature Today. https://doi.org/10.2307/40136407

@article{allen1981the,
  title  = {The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism},
  author = {Belkind, Allen and Baker, Houston A.},
  year   = {1981},
  journal = {World Literature Today},
  doi    = {10.2307/40136407}
}