Title A freedom bought with blood : African American war literature from the Civil War to World War II / by Jennifer C. James

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations 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 Harlem -- 7. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism War in literature. War and literature -- United States African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans in literature. World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Literature and the war World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Race identity American literature -- African American authors War and literature War in literature Kriegsliteratur Krieg Motiv SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140245 Subject United States USA Schwärze Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469606675 1469606674 0807858072 9780807858073

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