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Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel.
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1994
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Literary TheorySweet HomeBlack ExperienceAfrican American HistorySocial SciencesAmerican LiteratureLiterary CriticismAfrican American StudiesAfrican American LiteratureUrban HistoryLanguage StudiesGreat MigrationHarlem WritersLiterary StudyLiterary HistoryAfrocentricityAfro-american WritingUrban ConditionUrban Life
Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in Afro-American writing from W.E.B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the depression.