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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs - The Man on the Firing Line (Hardcover)
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs - The Man on the Firing Line (Hardcover)
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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 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. This literary biography, the first written about
the author, draws extensively on primary sources and late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, local and
national, African American and white. A very different Sutton
Griggs emerges from these materials-a dynamic figure who devoted
himself to literature for a longer period and to a more profound
extent than has ever been previously imagined but also someone who
frequently found himself embroiled in controversy because of what
he said in his writings and the means he used to publish them. The
book challenges currently held notions about the audience for, and
the content, production, and dissemination of politically engaged
US black fiction, altering the perception of the African American
literature and print culture of the period.
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