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

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.
Local noteLittle-322942--305131027752-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
LCCN 99047796
ISBN0813121639 (cloth : alk. paper)

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