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Black on Black - Hardcover

by John Cullen Gruesser
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Cullen GruesserPublish date:2000-06-08Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813121635ISBN-10:813121639UPC:9780813121635Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Semiotics & Theory, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC7C3WV62B
" 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
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813121635ISBN-10:813121639UPC:9780813121635Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Semiotics & Theory, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC7C3WV62B
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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