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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609176457
Other title:
  • Remembering and surviving
  • African American fiction of the Vietnam War
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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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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