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This paper first identifies three elements which characterize Trey Ellis's New Black Aesthetic(NBA).
The elements include a challenge to the traditional expectation about the role of African
American writers, a postmodernist impulse to satirize, and a multicultural, evasive stance on
racial issues. The paper then shows how these three characteristics of Ellis's NBA are reflected
in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum. Among the three characteristics, the paper
concludes, the evasive stance on racial issues is most problematic because if, as the use of the
word ‘black’ in NBA implies, Ellis and other NBA writers want to maintain “organic links”
with other African Americans, they could not and should not turn away from racial issues.
(Daegu University)