Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore how African-American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries illuminates the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country asserting itself as an imperial power.
Trade Review"Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association"
"Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society"
"Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History"
"Nurhussein writes with clarity and critical precision about the significance and ironies of the singular position Ethiopia occupies in the diasporic imagination."
---Hannah Giorgis, The Guardian"Sophisticated, compelling and beautifully produced work."
---Christian Christian Hogsbjerg, Connections"[An] intellectual revelation"
---Hannah Giorgis, The Guardian"
[Black Land] provides readers with a fresh insight into the symbolism in political discourse. The book is
informative and stimulating with rich historical references and their profound analyses. . . . A useful publication, which will benefit college level students as well as mainstream researchers on the history of the Horn of Africa and, indeed, the general reader.
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---Youngjin Kang, Journal of African and Asian Studies"This is a richly textured and deeply persuasive book.
Black Land intervenes and contributes to understandings of Black internationalism and diaspora, empire, militarism, periodicals, and Orientalism, as well as fashion, gender, and race."
---Elizabeth M. Sheehan, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
