Platitudes
  • Published:
    Sep-1988
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    183
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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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    • First Edition
    • Sep-1988
    • Vintage
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0394754395
    • ISBN13: 9780394754390
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    • Oct-2003
    • Northeastern University Press
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1555535860
    • ISBN13: 9781555535865



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