Platitudes - & the New Black Aesthetic

A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community.

About the author

Trey Ellis is a professional novelist and screenwriter. In addition to Platitudes, he has written the highly acclaimed novels Home Repairs and Right Here, Right Now, as well as several screenplays, including The Inkwell and The Tuskegee Airmen. He lives in Santa Monica, California. Bertram D. Ashe is Associate Professor of English at the College of Holy Cross. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Richard Yarborough, editor of the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Trey Ellis
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2003
• EAN: 9781555535865
• ISBN: 978-1-55553-586-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 214 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Series: Northeastern Library of Black; Northeastern Library of Black; New England Library of Black L
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature