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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home : African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion /

"In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of thes...

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Autor principal: Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Introduction: Empire at Home and Abroad; Part 1. African American Literature and the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 1. Cuban Generals, Black Sergeants, and White Colonels: The African American Poetic Response to the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 2. Wars Abroad and at Home in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and The Hindered Hand; Part 2. African American Literature, the Philippine-American War, and Expansion in the Pacific; Chapter 3. Black Burdens, Laguna Tales, and "Citizen Tom" Narratives: African American Writing and the Philippine-American WarChapter 4. Annexation in the Pacific and Asian Conspiracy in Central America in James Weldon Johnson's Unproduced Operettas; Coda: Pauline Hopkins, the Colored American Magazine, and the Critique of Empire Abroad and at Home in "Talma Gordon."