Sutton Griggs (1872–1933)
Auteur de Imperium in Imperio
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Sutton Griggs
Wisdom's call 1 exemplaire
IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO (Political Dystopia): A Study of the Negro Race Problem (Dodo Press) 1 exemplaire
The race question in a new light 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century (2016) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Griggs, Sutton Elbert
- Date de naissance
- 1872-06-19
- Date de décès
- 1933-01-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chatfield, Texas, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Études
- Bishop College
Richmond Theological Seminary - Professions
- Author
Baptist minister
activist
co-founder and publisher, Virginia Baptist newspaper
founder, Orion Publishing
President, American Baptist Theological Seminary - Organisations
- National Baptist Convention
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 139
- Popularité
- #147,351
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 58
- Langues
- 2
Genre aside: two black boys grow up in the post-slavery South US, get formal education and the informal education of inequality, injustice, and lynchings. Late-ish in the novel it's revealed that a secret black society with its own government (hence the title) are trying to work out what to make of their relationship to white society and government.
It's ultimately not a story about the characters and their occasionally melodramatic adventures: it's about the crossroads the fictional imperium and the real people it stands for have come to (I doubt it's coincidence that the three main characters bear very similar names despite espousing very different paths) and it's explicitly aimed at white readers, some mixture of plea and warning.… (plus d'informations)