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The Black sleuth

Title: The Black sleuth / John Edward Bruce ; edited with an introduction by John Cullen Gruesser.
Author: Bruce, John Edward.
Publication: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Description

xxxiii, 125 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 23 cm.

Summary

"Originally serialized in McGirt's Magazine between 1907 and 1909, The Black Sleuth is one of the earliest African American fictional works to depict a black detective. Now published for the first time in book form, this fascinating yet idiosyncratic mystery centers on its West African protagonist, Sadipe Okukenu. The tale follows his student years, his successful career as a brilliant sleuth in England and on the continent, and his investigation of the theft of a large, flawless diamond.".
"But The Black Sleuth is much more than a detective story. John Edward Bruce employs conventions from popular fiction and an extended "African-abroad" plot to boldly attack and ridicule white prejudice and racial injustice in the United States and elsewhere. His narrative not only counters the dominant Eurocentric view of the world with a Black Atlantic perspective, but also educates his black readers about Africa, Western imperialism, and, perhaps most important, themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Northeastern library of Black literature

Uniform Title

Northeastern library of Black literature.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Mystery fiction.

Bibliography (note)

ISBN

1555535119 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2001059188

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries