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According to Wikipedia, Houston Alfred Baker Jr. is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association, editor of the journal American Literature, and has authored several books, including The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, and Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists, by Richard J. Lane.

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Houston A. Baker Jr.'s Published Works

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Published Works

The Literary Blues Tradition@@@Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. (1985) (570)
Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) (163)
Black British cultural studies : a reader (1996) (156)
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature (1984) (156)
Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere (1994) (136)
Turning south again (2001) (71)
Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic (1988) (58)
The journey back : issues in Black literature and criticism (1981) (54)
Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture (1972) (49)
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writings (1993) (48)
Caliban's Triple Play (1986) (45)
Ericas in Southern Africa (1967) (39)
Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s (1991) (35)
Black Popular Culture : A Project by Michele Wallace (1992) (34)
Afro-American literary study in the 1990s (1992) (31)
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era (2008) (31)
To Move without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode (1983) (25)
English literature : opening up the canon (1981) (23)
In Dubious Battle (1987) (20)
Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness— Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance (2015) (20)
Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America (2001) (19)
Patches : Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's Everyday Use (1985) (19)
The Trouble with Post-Blackness (2015) (18)
Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (1990) (18)
Black feminist criticism and critical theory (1988) (18)
Blues, Ideology, and American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1986) (16)
Not Without my Daughters (1992) (14)
A Tragedy of the Artist: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1969) (13)
I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South (2007) (12)
Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature. (1983) (12)
Singers of Daybreak: Studies in Black American Literature.@@@The Way of the New World.@@@Black Fiction. (1975) (11)
Reading Black : essays in the criticism of African, Caribbean, and Black American literature (1976) (11)
Handling "Crisis": Great Books, Rap Music, and the End of Western Homogeneity (Reflections on the Humanities in America) (1990) (11)
Black literature in America (1971) (8)
New Essays on Native Son: Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature (1990) (8)
2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness (2015) (7)
The Passion Of Claude Mckay Selected Poetry And Prose 1912 1948 (1974) (6)
Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition (1995) (6)
The Promised Body: Reflections on Canon in an Afro-American Context (1988) (5)
When Lindbergh sleeps with Bessie Smith (1989) (5)
Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism (1991) (5)
The Black Bottom Line: Reflections on Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and White Male Violence in America (2016) (4)
Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (4)
Intuiting Archive: Notes for a Post-Trauma Poetics (2016) (4)
Black Studies, Rap and the Academy. Black Literature and Culture Series. (1993) (4)
The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism (1981) (4)
Critical Change and Blues Continuity: An Essay on the Criticism of Larry Neal (1985) (3)
A many-colored coat of dreams : the poetry of Countee Cullen (1974) (3)
Preface: Unsettling Blackness (2000) (3)
The point of entanglement: modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love (2011) (2)
A Function at the Junction@@@Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory@@@The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1990) (2)
Sister President: Ruth J. Simmons (1995) (2)
1. “What Was Is”: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness (2015) (2)
Bum Rap@@@Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. (1994) (2)
Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography. (1975) (2)
Generational Shifts and the Recent Criticism of Afro-American Literature (1981) (2012) (2)
Twentieth century interpretations of Native son;: A collection of critical essays (1972) (2)
On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story (2007) (2)
So Black and Blue@@@Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1986) (2)
Presidential Address 1992: Local Pedagogy; or, How I Redeemed My Spring Semester (1993) (2)
Meditation on Tuskegee: Black Studies Stories and Their Imbrication. (1995) (1)
Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75 (2004) (1)
7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness (2015) (1)
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology.@@@Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.@@@Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writings. (1993) (1)
When Lindbergh sleeps with Bessie Smith: The writing of place in Toni Morrison’sSula (1989) (1)
"Who Reads Here?": Back Talking with Houston Baker@@@Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing (1992) (1)
African American Review at 40: A Retrospective (2007) (1)
Blue Men, Black Writing, and Southern Re-Visions (2002) (1)
13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens) (2015) (1)
The Afrocentric Idea.Molefi Kete Asante (1988) (1)
Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes (2015) (1)
Introduction: Little Africa (2008) (0)
American Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for All (2008) (0)
"But he can never be an Englishman": "Placing" Black British Cultural Studies (2016) (0)
Man Without Connection: John McWhorter (2008) (0)
A Concluding Meditation on Plantations, Ships, and Black Modernism (2001) (0)
Conclusion: What Then Must We Do? (2008) (0)
After Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public Intellectuals (2008) (0)
Why LeRoi Wanted Himself As Dance (1990) (0)
Balancing the Perspective, a Look at Early Black American Literary Artistry (2018) (0)
Race and Displacement (2013) (0)
Prison: Colored Bodies, Private Profit (2008) (0)
Jail: Southern Detention to Global Liberation (2008) (0)
9. The Long Road Home (2015) (0)
11. “Whither Now and Why”: Content Mastery and Pedagogy— A Critique and a Challenge (2015) (0)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (review) (2013) (0)
Managing subscription income (1975) (0)
A Birthday in The Dust: For Mandela in His Seventies (1990) (0)
Brer Baker's Post-Opec Blues@@@Blues, Ideology & Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1986) (0)
5. E-Raced: #Touré, Twitter, and Trayvon (2015) (0)
10. Half as Good (2015) (0)
Modernism’s Performative Masquerade: Mr. Washington, Tuskegee, and Black-South Mobility (2001) (0)
A Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby Steele (2008) (0)
Afro-American Literature@@@Harlem Renaissance@@@The Harlem Renaissance Remembered@@@Langston Hughes, Black Genius: A Critical Evaluation@@@Give Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature@@@Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture (1974) (0)
Rethinking the Americas (2002) (0)
Have Mask, Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy League (2008) (0)
Erica R. Edwards: Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership . (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. xxii, 249.) (2013) (0)
The Urge to Adorn: Generational Wit and the Birth of The Signifying Monkey (2015) (0)
Cartography of Curves: Black Women and Eros in Prose and Pictures: A Dialogue between Rachel Eliza Griffiths (photographer) and Alice Randall (novelist), with an Introduction, “Black Magic Women,” by Houston A. Baker (2013) (0)
Reflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen Carter (2008) (0)
[Liberating Motifs in Afro-American Religion and Literature by James Evans] (audio) (1985) (0)
Panel presentation and audience discussion of "Who Speaks for the Negro?" (2008) (0)
Yes, Virginia, There Is an Answer (2016) (0)
Announcements (2005) (0)
Poetic License (2013) (0)
Architectures of Imagination (2015) (0)
1992: Local Pedagogy; or, How I Redeemed My Spring Semester (2000) (0)
Friends Like These: Race and Neoconservatism (2008) (0)
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xi + 110 pages. $16.95. (1997) (0)
Utile, Dulce and the Literature of Black America. (1972) (0)
International editorial board (2000) (0)
Modern Language Association Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)

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