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Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa
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"Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Pur...
"Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple." "John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism - the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future - to provide a framework for his study. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?""--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- John Cullen Gruesser
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 205 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 081315880X, 9780813132549, 0813132541, 9780813121635, 1322596743, 0813121639, 9780813158808
- OCLC
- ocn900344412, ocm42477123, ocn606319784
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-195) and index.
- 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa -- 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa -- 3. The New Negro and Africa -- 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis -- 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia -- 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa
Subjects
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
- American literature -- African influences.
- Africa -- In literature.
- Africa -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century.