Coming Up Down Home (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cecil Brown
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1960’s, and 1990
- Setting: Bolton, North Carolina, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Morris, Cornelius “Knee” Brown, Amanda Freeman, Lofton Freeman, Dorothy Brown, Culphert “Cuffy” Brown, Connie Marie Dana Waddell, Roy Melvin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Values, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Prisons, Racism, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, New York City, Rural or country life, Violence, North Carolina, Punishment
- Locales: New York, NY, Bolton, NC
Form and Content
Coming Up Down Home is a touching story of the author’s early years, when, as a black boy in rural North Carolina, he is seeking to understand the world around him. Although eventually he comes to blame racism for many of the evils in that world, Cecil Brown is also aware of the differences in character between the various relatives who have authority over him. In fact, his episodic narrative is unified by this latter emphasis, Brown’s perception of the ways these individuals conducted their own lives and shaped his character.
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