Black on Black
twentieth-century African American writing about Africa
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Publication
2000 - University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Kentucky
Language
English
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL47480M
- ISBN-139780813121635
- ISBN-100813121639
- OCLC Control Number42477123
- OCLC Control Numberblackonblacktwen00grue
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99047796
- Goodreads2627737
- LibraryThing1658975
Classifications
- DDC810.9/326/08996073
- LCCPS159.A35 G78 2000
Description
"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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