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by Houston A. Baker


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Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of this tradition is essential to the understanding of any individual black author or work. To deomonstrate the continuity of this tradition, Baker examines themes that appear in folklore and persist throughout contemporary black literature. "Freedom and Apocalypse," for example, traces the idea that black Americans are a chosen people who will, by some violent means, overthrow the white man's tyranny.

The essays culminate in an examination of the life and work of Richard Wright. Baker's treatment of Wright as a black American artist who recorded the black man's shift from an agrarian to an urban setting places Wright and the tradition of black literature and culture in a fresh perspective.

From the rear cover

Long Black Song ought to be read by those who are interested in the black experience and to be pondered over by those who wish really to know the American experience. Mr. Baker's restatement of the roles of religion and education in black American life is emphatic, but explanation of the significance of the oral tradition in black culture, from slavery to the ghetto, from the field-hand to contemporary blacks, is dramatic and will come as an eye-opener to many readers.

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  • Title Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture
  • Author Houston A. Baker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st pbk. ed
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-10-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780813913018 / 0813913012
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 6.02 x 0.62 in (22.73 x 15.29 x 1.57 cm)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90038580
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.306

About the author

Houston A. Baker, Jr. is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of Black Literature in America and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son.

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