Imperium in Imperio

Sutton E. Griggs, Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren

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West Virginia University Press
30 October 2022

Biography: literary; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary companions; History of the Americas

Series: Regenerations

A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.

Sutton E. Griggs’s first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in Imperio introduces the fictional Belton Piedmont and Bernard Belgrave as “future leaders of their race” and uses these characters to make sense of the violence that marked the dawn of the twentieth century. Taking on contemporary battles over separatism and integration, Griggs’s novel continues to play a crucial role in understandings of Black politics.

Edited and introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, this new critical edition offers not only an incisive biographical and historical introduction to the novel and its author but also a wealth of references that make the events and characters of Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio, and its aftermath, accessible to readers today.

By: Sutton E. Griggs
Edited by: Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781952271588
ISBN 10: 1952271584
Series: Regenerations
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 30 October 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tess Chakkalakal is associate professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College and the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English at the University of Chicago and the author of What Was African American Literature?

Reviews for Imperium in Imperio

“An excellent edition that will make this important work more accessible to scholars and students alike.”- Benjamin Fagan, author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation