Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic

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.

• | Author: Trey Ellis
• | Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 02, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1555535860
• | ISBN-13: 9781555535865