Platitudes
Subtitle: & the new Black aesthetic
By: Trey Ellis ; with a new foreword by Bertram D. Ashe.
Series: The Northeastern library of Black literature
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: African American novelists -- Fiction.; African American women novelists -- Fiction.; Authorship -- Sex differences -- Fiction.; Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.; Writer's block -- Fiction.; Social classes -- Fiction.; Storytelling -- Fiction.; Sex role -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Trey Ellis's debut novel, Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community. Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne's latest sexist comedy. Alternately telling the story about the coming of age of Earle and Dorothy - two black middle-class teenagers, sex-starved in New York City - the battling writers sneak ever, and dangerously, closer to reconciling their literary disputes." "This edition of Platitudes also includes "The New Black Aesthetic," a groundbreaking essay by Ellis that appeared in the journal Callaloo."--Jacket.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1988.