LEADER 04826nam 2200697 450 001 9910787472203321 005 20240102235756.0 010 $a0-8131-3254-1 010 $a0-8131-5880-X 035 $a(OCoLC)900344412$z(OCoLC)994496320 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn900344412 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915390 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11009709 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690956 035 $a(OCoLC)900344412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915390 035 $a(CKB)3710000000334214 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000334214 100 $a20150205h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack on Black $etwentieth-century African American writing about Africa /$fJohn Cullen Gruesser 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 300 $aNotesWorks Cited; Index. 311 $a1-322-59674-3 311 $a0-8131-2163-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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. 327 $a3. 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. 327 $aLangston 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. 330 $aBlack 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xAttitudes$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican influences 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 607 $aAfrica$xForeign public opinion, American$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican influences. 676 $a810.9/326/08996073 700 $aGruesser$b John Cullen$f1959-$01492943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787472203321 996 $aBlack on Black$93715728 997 $aUNINA