Books written by John Cullen Gruesser
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Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa
Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, ...
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Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic
Marcus Garvey, whose ultimate objective, according to a 1924 essay, was to create “a Racial Empire upon which 'the sun shall never set'” (5). Dating back to the late eighteenth century, Ethiopianism, the teleological view of history ...
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
Fullinwider, S. P. The Mind and Mood ofBlack America. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey, 19 69. Gaines, Kevin. “Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as 'Civilizing Mission.' ” Kaplan and Pease 433—55. Garvey, Marcus. “African Fundamentalism.
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
Subsequent writers, notably Zora Neale Hurston in Their Eyes Were Watching God, portray Florida in a similar manner. Hurston sets her most famous novel in various Florida locations, including Eatonville, Jacksonville, and the Everglades ...
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
At the indoor portion of the festivities, held at Music Hall, which Booker T. Washington describes at length in Up from Slavery (1901), Sergeant William Carney appeared with the flag he bore in one of the most famous battles of the ...
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The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Even though more than a thousand pages of Hopkins's works have been brought back into print, The Unruly Voice is the first book devoted exclusively to her writings and the significance she holds for readers today.
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line
As John Ernest aptly remarks, Those who dismissAfrican American literature ofthis time eitheron the basis of sentimentalism ordidacticism—oreven on thegroundsof formal incoherence—miss an ... Wilson J. Moses, “Literary Garveyism: The ...
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Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction
In conventional nineteenth— century detective novels, the solution of the mystery results in the restoration of the ... Hopkins presents Venus and her brother Oliver as part of a new generation of African Americans, one aware of but ...
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Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction
This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts.
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White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa
For white readers and writers, Africa was long the Dark Continent, land of Tarzan and of Kurtz. In White on Black, John Gruesser delineates shifts in the perception and portrayal...
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Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century
“long con”: an extended trick that is both pragmatic and visionary given the racialized restrictions of ... and the black female trickster tradition.14 In Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture, ...
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Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic
... individual hero with the notion of community . 29 This presentation of the black woman's right to control her own body recalls Harriet Jacobs's vivid and effective treatment of the same theme in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ...
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line
the White Man's Burden—1865–1900.66 Griggs entitles the chapter containing the proposed yellow fever plot “Two of a Kind” ... see Gretchen Murphy, Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (New ...
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Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa
Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, ...
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Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts
... Poe's complicated relationship with Young America, a nationalist group associated with Duyckinck, see Claude Richard ... Printed Word , 46, 84. 18 Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. 1: 1819–1851 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins ...