A literary life of Sutton E. Griggs : the man on the firing line / John Cullen Gruesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruesser, Cullen John, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933--Criticism and interpretation.

Griggs, Sutton E.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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 20th 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 produce four of his novels. Griggs pastored Baptist churches in three Southern states and played a leading role in the influential but understudied National Baptist Convention. Until recently, little was known about the personal and professional life of this religious and community leader. Thus, critics could only contextualize his literary texts to a limited degree and were forced to speculate about how he published them.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266980-X

0-19-194673-7

0-19-266979-6