TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanshaw,Shirley A.J.
TI  - Re-membering and surviving: African American fiction of the Vietnam War 
SN  - 9781609176457
AV  - PS374 .R464 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - War stories, American
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Heroes in literature
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - African American soldiers in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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