Bøger af John Cullen Gruesser

Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history.

Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B.

Examines the history of detective fiction from 1841 to 1940, a period which spawned some of its greatest writers. It includes analysis of stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Susan Glaspell, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Chester Himes, and Ralph Ellison.

Looks at the prospects for breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. This work emphasizes the confluences among three major theories: postcolonialism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Signifyin(g), and Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic.