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Sutton E. Griggs.
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In the following essay, Gloster profiles Griggs as a leader among those African-American novelists whose work challenged racial stereotypes portrayed in the writings of white Southerners such as Thoma...
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In the following essay, Tracy offers a look at Griggs's style as a preacher.
Although critics as early as Sterling Brown in 1937 recognized the artistic deficiencies of Sutton E. Griggs, they h...
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In the following excerpt, Bone looks at Griggs's novels within the framework of African-American political conditions at the time of their writing.
Griggs was a prominent Baptist minister and ...
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In the following essay, Fleming explores aspects of violence—real and imagined—in Griggs's novels.
Sutton E. Griggs has customarily been held up as an early example of the militan...
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In the following essay, Tatham examines Griggs's Imperium in Imperio as a guide to radical political action.
Be convinced . . . that the past is no forbidden vista upon which we dare not look,...
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In the following essay, Whitlow compares and contrasts Imperium in Imperio with Martin Delany's novel of slave revolt, Blake.
From the outset of the Black experience in America there has existe...
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In the following essay, Moses evaluates Griggs's place within the tradition of the nationalist novel adn discusses his use of African-American literary conventions.
The distinguished black Amer...
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In the following essay, which was originally presented as a lecture at an American Studies conference, Moses contrasts Griggs's views on ethnic assimilation in America with those of the Jewish ...
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In the following essay, Vassilowitch examines the rise and fall of the white racist Horace Christian, a character in Overshadowed.
Overshadowed (1901) is the second novel written by turn-of-the-centur...
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In the following excerpt, Campbell explores the ways in which Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition reflected the moral climate of their time.
The ...
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Critical Essay by Hugh M. Gloster
