Bibliograph

Re-membering and surviving, African American fiction of the Vietnam War, Shirley A. James Hanshaw

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Re-membering and surviving, African American fiction of the Vietnam War, Shirley A. James Hanshaw

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Re-membering and surviving

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1145895719

Responsibility statement

Shirley A. James Hanshaw

Sub title

African American fiction of the Vietnam War

Summary

"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; and De Mojo Blues (1985), A. R. Flowers"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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 George Davis's 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

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Remembering and survivingAfrican American fiction of the Vietnam War

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