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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 Coming Home -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Literary Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam |
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Appendix 2. Visual and Musical Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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War stories, American -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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Heroes in literature.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war
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African American soldiers in literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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American fiction
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American fiction -- African American authors
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Heroes in literature
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War and literature
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War stories, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609176457 |
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1609176456 |
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