Book: Platitudes (the Northeastern Library Of Black Literature) Trey Ellis's uproariously funny 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.
Details of Book: Platitudes (the Northeastern Library Of Black Literature) Book: Platitudes (the Northeastern Library Of Black Literature)
Author: Trey Ellis, Bertram D. Ashe
ISBN: 1555535860
ISBN-13: 9781555535865
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Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2003-10-02
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Number of Pages: 203
Language: English