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Baker, Houston Alfred was born on March 22, 1943 in Louisville. Son of Houston A. and Viola Elizabeth (Smith) Baker.
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"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. The 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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When Houston A. Baker, Jr., one of America's foremost literary critics, first published Afro-American Poetics in 1988, it was hailed as a major revisionist history of both African American culture and criticism. Now available in paperback, this ambitious and enlightening book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920s and the 1960s; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, an intellectual autobiography tracing his own beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his "second birth" as he began teaching African American literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.
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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
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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.
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Baker, Houston Alfred was born on March 22, 1943 in Louisville. Son of Houston A. and Viola Elizabeth (Smith) Baker.
Bachelor of Arts, Howard U., 1965; Master of Arts (John Hay Whitney fellow), University of California at Los Angeles, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968; Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Berea College, 1988; Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Williams College, 1989.
Instructor, Howard U., summers 1966;
instructor English, Yale University, 1968-1969;
assistant professor, Yale University, 1969-1970;
associate professor, member, Center Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1970-1973;
professor, Center Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1973-1974;
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1974-1982;
Albert M. Greenfield professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1982;
director Afro-American studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1977;
director Center for Study Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1987. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1975-1976. Distinguished visiting scholar Cornell Univercity, 1977.
Visiting professor Haverford College, Pennsylvania, 1983-1985, instructor School Criticism and Theory, 1987. Instructor Oxford Center for African Culture, summer 1989.
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Member Modern Language Association, College Language Association, American Studies Association Beta Kappa.
Married Charlotte Marie Pierce, September 10, 1966. 1 son, Mark Frederick.