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A Freedom Bought with Blood : African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Jennifer C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
- War and literature--United States.
- War in literature.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--United States.
- American literature.
- War in literature--Race identity--United States.
- War and literature--Literature and the war--United States.
- War and literature.
- African Americans--Literature and the war.
- African Americans.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Local Subjects:
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
- War and literature--United States.
- War in literature.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. Sable Hands and National Arms: Theorizing the African American Literature of War; 1 CIVIL WAR WOUNDS: William Wells Brown, Violence, and the Domestic Narrative; 2 FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE: Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative; 3 NOT MEN ALONE: Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of My Life in Camp and Masculine Self-Fashioning; 4 IMAGINING MOBILITY: Turn-of-the-Century Empire, Technology, and Black Imperial Citizenship; 5 INNOCENCE, COMPLICITY, CONSENT: Black Men, White Women, and Worlds of Wars
- 6 DIASPORA AND DISSENT: World War I, Claude McKay, and Home to Harlem7 IF WE COME OUT STANDING UP: Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of Rehabilitation; CONCLUSION. Let This Dying Be for Something: And Then We Heard the Thunder and the Military Neoslave Narrative; Notes; 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.
- ISBN:
- 9798890878847
- 9781469606675
- 1469606674
- OCLC:
- 823170587
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