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Author:

Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Title:

Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / John Cullen Gruesser.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xiii, 205 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.
Afro-Americans--History--History--20th century.
American literature--African influences.
Africa--In literature.
Africa--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780813121635 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813121639 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42477123

LCCN:

99047796

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)