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Houston A. Baker Jr.
American scholar and professor (born 1943)
Houston A. Baker Jr.
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. (born March 22, 1943), an American scholar specializing in African-American literature, is Professor Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association and editor of the journal American Literature, along with authoring several books, including The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987), Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature (1984), and Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing (1993), and editing literary collections. Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists, by Richard J. Lane.
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