Harvard University Press: A Home Elsewhere : Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama by Robert B. Stepto

Harvard University Press: A Home Elsewhere : Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama by Robert B. Stepto
A HOME ELSEWHERE
Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama
ROBERT B. STEPTO
In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama’s Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass’s Narrative to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.