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A Freedom Bought with Blood : African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II

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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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