04821nam 2200697 450 991046045680332120200520144314.00-8131-3254-10-8131-5880-X(OCoLC)900344412(OCoLC)994496320(OCoLC)ocn900344412(MiAaPQ)EBC1915390(Au-PeEL)EBL1915390(CaPaEBR)ebr11009709(CaONFJC)MIL690956(OCoLC)900344412(EXLCZ)99371000000033421420150205h20002000 uy 0engurcnu---unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlack on Black twentieth-century African American writing about Africa /John Cullen GruesserLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2000.©20001 online resource (230 pages)NotesWorks Cited; Index.1-322-59674-3 0-8131-2163-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa; The Origins, Evolution, and Influence of ethiopianism; Discourse and Genre Tensions in African American Depictions of Africa; 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa; The ""Warring Ideals"" of Africa and America in the Novels of Sutton C. Griggs; Pauline flopkins's Excavation of a Usable African Past in Of One Blood; John E. Bruce's Ethiopianist Investigation of Anglo-Saxon Race Prejudice in The Black Sleuth.3. The New Negro and AfricaShirley Graham's Forging of Dramatic Links between African and African American Art and Experience in Tom-Tom; Harry Dean and the Dream of an Ethiopian Empire; from Life to Literature in The Big Sea; Saving a ""White"" Woman (and Liberia, Too) in Henry r. Downing's The American Cavalryman; Exporting Manifest Destiny and Economic Prosperity to Africa in Gilbert Lubin's The Promised Land; Realism, Melodrama, and Allegory in George S. Schuyler's Slaves Today; 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis; The Italo-Cthiopian War and Black America.Langston Hughes and Melvin Tolson's Shift from a Racial to a Marxian Approach to the Ethiopian ConflictGeorge Schuyler's Strongest Attacks on Race Chauvinism in the Black empire Novels; Pan-African Resistance to fascism in George Schuyler's ""Revolt in Ethiopia""; 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia; 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa; Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power; Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs; The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple.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.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismPublic opinionUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansAttitudesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican influencesAfricaIn literatureAfricaForeign public opinion, AmericanHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and historyHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Public opinionHistoryAfrican AmericansAttitudesHistoryAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAmerican literatureAfrican influences.810.9/326/08996073Gruesser John Cullen1959-882102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460456803321Black on Black2455209UNINA