Platitudes ; &, The new Black aesthetic
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Platitudes ; &, The new Black aesthetic
（The Northeastern library of Black literature）
Northeastern University Press, [2003]
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1988
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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.
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