Black on Black
Subtitle: twentieth-century African American writing about Africa
By: John Cullen Gruesser.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lexington, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780813121635
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- 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; African Americans -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; American literature -- African influences; Africa -- In literature; Africa -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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.".

"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 bright future - to provide a framework for his study. 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?""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.