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Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa
- Title
- Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / John Cullen Gruesser.
- Author
- Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-
- Publication
- Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 205 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Africa > In literature
- Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Africa > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 20th century
- Public opinion > United States > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Attitudes > History > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- American literature > African influences
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
- Contents
- Historical and theoretical introduction to African American writing about Africa -- Double-consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa: Sutton Griggs, Pauline Hopkins, John E. Bruce -- The new Negro and Africa: Shirley Graham, Harry Dean, Langston Hughes, Henry F. Downing, Gilbert Lubin, George Schuyler -- The African American literary response to the Ethiopian crisis: Langston Hughes, Melvin Tolson, George Schuyler -- The promise of Africa-to-be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia -- The movement away from Ethiopianism in African American writing about Africa: Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker.
- Call Number
- Sc E 00-829
- ISBN
- 0813121639 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99047796
- OCLC
- 42477123
- Author
- Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-
- Title
- Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / John Cullen Gruesser.
- Imprint
- Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 00-829