Black on black :: twentieth-century African American writing about Africa /

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 readin...

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1. Verfasser: Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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Zusammenfassung: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?""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 brig
Beschreibung:NotesWorks Cited; Index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:9780813158808
081315880X
1322596743
9781322596747
0813121639
9780813121635