Title: Platitudes
First published: 1988
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.
Subjects: African American women novelists, Storytelling, Fiction, Social classes, Writer's block, Sex role, African American novelists, Authorship, Sex differences, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, humorous, African americans, fiction