The empire abroad and the empire at home : African American literature and the era of overseas expansion / John Cullen Gruesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Literature and globalization.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history. Focusing on authors who explicitly connect the empire abroad and the empire at home ( James Weldon Johnson, Sutton Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others), Gruesser examines U.S. bl

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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"; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283733373

1283733374

9780820344683

0820344680

OCLC:

818415855