Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

by Donald M. Shaffer

Overview

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496855992
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/16/2026
Series:	Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208

About the Author

Donald M. Shaffer is director of the African American Studies Program as well as mentor to Presidential Scholars and associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity, published by University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in the Southern Literary Journal and Western Journal of Black Studies.