Black on Black : Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa -- The Origins, Evolution, and Influence of ethiopianism -- Discourse and Genre Tensions in African American Depictions of Africa -- 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa -- The "Warring Ideals" of Africa and America in the Novels of Sutton C. Griggs -- Pauline flopkins's Excavation of a Usable African Past in Of One Blood -- John E. Bruce's Ethiopianist Investigation of Anglo-Saxon Race Prejudice in The Black Sleuth -- 3. The New Negro and Africa -- Shirley Graham's Forging of Dramatic Links between African and African American Art and Experience in Tom-Tom -- Harry Dean and the Dream of an Ethiopian Empire -- from Life to Literature in The Big Sea -- Saving a "White" Woman (and Liberia, Too) in Henry r. Downing's The American Cavalryman -- Exporting Manifest Destiny and Economic Prosperity to Africa in Gilbert Lubin's The Promised Land -- Realism, Melodrama, and Allegory in George S. Schuyler's Slaves Today -- 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis -- The Italo-Cthiopian War and Black America -- Langston Hughes and Melvin Tolson's Shift from a Racial to a Marxian Approach to the Ethiopian Conflict -- George Schuyler's Strongest Attacks on Race Chauvinism in the Black empire Novels -- Pan-African Resistance to fascism in George Schuyler's "Revolt in Ethiopia -- 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia -- 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa -- Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power -- Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs -- The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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