Re-membering and surviving African American fiction of the Vietnam War / Shirley A. James Hanshaw.

By:

Hanshaw, Shirley A. J [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781609176457

Other title:

Remembering and surviving
African American fiction of the Vietnam War

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS374 .R464 2020

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Contents:

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical and Literary Background -- Chapter 2. Untangling a Paradoxical Web for the Black Warrior: The Anansean Motif in Captain Blackman -- Chapter 3. Reading the Signs: Re-Membering the Legacy of Voodoo as Path to Empowerment in De Mojo Blues -- Chapter 4. Playin' It by Ear: The Jazzerly Sound of Survival in Tragic Magic -- Chapter 5. Transcending Abstractions by Re-Membering Self in Coming Home -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Literary Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam

Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Subject: "A critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American novels: Captain Blackman (1972), John A. Williams; Tragic Magic (1978), Wesley Brown; Coming Home (1984), George Davis; and De Mojo Blues (1985), A. R. Flowers"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS374 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1158024396

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical and Literary Background -- Chapter 2. Untangling a Paradoxical Web for the Black Warrior: The Anansean Motif in Captain Blackman -- Chapter 3. Reading the Signs: Re-Membering the Legacy of Voodoo as Path to Empowerment in De Mojo Blues -- Chapter 4. Playin' It by Ear: The Jazzerly Sound of Survival in Tragic Magic -- Chapter 5. Transcending Abstractions by Re-Membering Self in Coming Home -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Literary Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam

Appendix 2. Visual and Musical Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"A critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American novels: Captain Blackman (1972), John A. Williams; Tragic Magic (1978), Wesley Brown; Coming Home (1984), George Davis; and De Mojo Blues (1985), A. R. Flowers"--

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