| Description |
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Sable hands and national arms : theorizing the African American literature of war -- 1. Civil War wounds : William Wells Brown, violence, and the domestic narrative -- 2. Fighting fire with fire : Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the post-Civil War reconciliation narrative -- 3. Not men alone : Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of My Life in Camp and masculine self-fashioning -- 4. Imagining mobility : turn-of-the-century empire, technology, and Black imperial citizenship -- 5. Innocence, complicity, consent : Black men, white women, and worlds of wars -- 6. Diaspora and dissent : World War I, Claude McKay, and Home to Harlem -- 7. If we come out standing up : Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the politics of rehabilitation -- Conclusion : Let this dying be for something : And Then We Heard the Thunder and the military neoslave narrative -- Notes -- Index. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
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War and literature -- United States.
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War and literature. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war.
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| ISBN |
9780807858073 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807831168 alkaline paper |
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0807831166 alkaline paper |
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0807858072 paperback alkaline paper |
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