Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric and argues that Obama uses the text to create a life story that resonates with central concepts of African Am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel Stein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2011-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9232