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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 Purple. 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?--publisher Description. 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. John Cullen Gruesser. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [179]-195) And Index.

Author

John Cullen Gruesser, John Cullen Gruesser

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322596747

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities