Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Orginal Publication Date
1983
Journal Title
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Volume
6
Issue
ees/vol6/iss1
First Page
11
Last Page
12
Abstract
James Payne's thoughtful and carefully documented essay stresses the importance of evaluating ethnic American, specifically Afroamerican, fiction within its historical context. The historical information he provides in his essay concerning the Afroamerican response to the Spanish-American War and to America's paranoia of a supposed "Yellow Peril" does indeed shed light on how Griggs and Corrothers each imaginatively re-invested a specific social reality with an Afroamerican revolutionary furor-a rage which ironically had the best interest of the country at heart.
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