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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Platitudes
• Author: Trey Ellis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781555535865
• ISBN: 1555535860
• ID: 08018006
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 141 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2003

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