Hanshaw, Shirley A. J., <br/><br/>
Re-membering and surviving  African American fiction of the Vietnam War / 
 Remembering and surviving  African American fiction of the Vietnam War 
Shirley A. James Hanshaw. 
 - East Lansing :  Michigan State University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781609176457 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>War stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>Heroes in literature.<br/>Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the war.<br/>African American soldiers in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374  / .R464 2020