John Gruesser

Biographic Data

ID	1208352
NAME	John Gruesser
GIVEN NAMES	John
FAMILY NAME	Gruesser
SIGNATURE	GRUESSER J
AFFILIATIONS	Sam Houston State University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	13
TOTAL CITATIONS	0
AUTHOR COUNT	13
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	0

A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs
John Cullen Gruesser, John GruesserBOOKLiterary Life of Sutton E. Griggs2022
Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872‒1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois, remarked, “spoke primarily to the Negro race,” using his own Nashville-based publishing company to issue four o…
Congo Love Song
Open AccessJohn GruesserARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2019
Ira Dworkin's meticulously researched Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State thoroughly and insightfully addresses the often decontextualized links between the Congo and US history generally and African American political, religious, literary, and visual cultures specifically from the 1880 s through the 1960s. Belgium’s King Leopold II began to form a colony in Central Africa in the late 1870 s, and it rece…
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home
John Cullen Gruesser, John GruesserBOOKEmpire Abroad and the Empire at…2012
Loopholes and retreats
John Cullen Gruesser, John Gruesser et al.ARTICLEEnglish and American Studies in…2010
Article 69. Loopholes and retreats: African American writers and the nineteenth century. was published on October 15, 2010 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 2009, issue 2010).
Bruce Grit
John Gruesser, John C Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2003
Black on Black
Tony Martins, Tony Martin et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2002
on provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, What is Africa to Me?John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopi…
Black on Black
Jennifer Margulis, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2001
Black on Black
Helen Lock, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000
The Unruly Voice
Cassandra Jackson, Pauline Hopkins et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1999
Explores the literary and journalistic career of Hopkins, a turn-of-the-century African American writer
White on Black
Oyekan Owomoyela, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1995
White on Black
Joseph Mclaren, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1995
White on Black
William Atkinson, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1993
Nostalgia Incarnate
John Gruesser, John C Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1992

Nostalgia Incarnate
John Gruesser, John C Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1992
White on Black
William Atkinson, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1993
White on Black
Oyekan Owomoyela, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1995
White on Black
Joseph Mclaren, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1995
The Unruly Voice
Cassandra Jackson, Pauline Hopkins et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1999
Explores the literary and journalistic career of Hopkins, a turn-of-the-century African American writer
Black on Black
Helen Lock, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000
Black on Black
Jennifer Margulis, John Cullen Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2001
Black on Black
Tony Martins, Tony Martin et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2002
on provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, What is Africa to Me?John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopi…
Bruce Grit
John Gruesser, John C Gruesser et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2003
Loopholes and retreats
John Cullen Gruesser, John Gruesser et al.ARTICLEEnglish and American Studies in…2010
Article 69. Loopholes and retreats: African American writers and the nineteenth century. was published on October 15, 2010 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 2009, issue 2010).
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home
John Cullen Gruesser, John GruesserBOOKEmpire Abroad and the Empire at…2012
Congo Love Song
Open AccessJohn GruesserARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2019
Ira Dworkin's meticulously researched Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State thoroughly and insightfully addresses the often decontextualized links between the Congo and US history generally and African American political, religious, literary, and visual cultures specifically from the 1880 s through the 1960s. Belgium’s King Leopold II began to form a colony in Central Africa in the late 1870 s, and it rece…
A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs
John Cullen Gruesser, John GruesserBOOKLiterary Life of Sutton E. Griggs2022
Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872‒1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois, remarked, “spoke primarily to the Negro race,” using his own Nashville-based publishing company to issue four o…