Black on Black (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121635)

" 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

Author: John Cullen Gruesser
ISBN-10: 0813121639
ISBN-13: 9780813121635
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2000
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2000 pg. 1993
Choice 11/01/2000 pg. 533