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

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Author / Creator:	Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-
Imprint:	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Description:	1 online resource (230 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- African influences. Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Attitudes. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- African influences. Literature. Literature and history. Public opinion. Public opinion, American. Africa -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century. Africa -- In literature. Africa. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239969

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ISBN:	9780813158808 081315880X 1322596743 9781322596747 0813121639 9780813121635
Notes:	NotesWorks Cited; Index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Gruesser, John Cullen. Black on Black : Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813121635

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