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Platitudes : & the new Black aesthetic / Trey Ellis ; with a new foreword by Bertram D. Ashe.

Title: Platitudes : & the new Black aesthetic / Trey Ellis ; with a new foreword by Bertram D. Ashe.
Author: Ellis, Trey.
Publication: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]

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Description

xxvi, 203 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

The Northeastern library of Black literature

Uniform Title

Northeastern library of Black literature.

Subject

Genre/Form

Black humor (Literature)
Fiction
Psychological fiction

Note

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1988.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

1555535860
9781555535865

LCCN

2003013865

OCLC

52514319
SCSB-10737308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library