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Re-membering and surviving : African American fiction of the Vietnam War /
"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;...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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