The Big Boxcar Contributor(s): Maund, Alfred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252067541 ISBN-13: 9780252067549 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $20.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1998 Annotation: Five men and a woman, all African Americans, huddle in the rattling darkness of a boxcar headed north, away from a brutal South, seeking freedom and opportunity. They are joined by a white intruder whose own quest endangers them all. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 98035208 |
Series: Radical Novel Reconsidered |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.3" W x 7.91" (0.56 lbs) 216 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Written from a black perspective by a white author, bears witness to the structural racism of a social order that sets ordinary people of different colors against each other to the disadvantage of all. This book contains stories of humor and humiliation, of prostitution and pride, of love and murder. |