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

Author James, Jennifer C.

ImprintChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Description324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note: ContentIntroduction. 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.

ISBN:9780807831168 (alk. paper)

ISBN:0807831166 (alk. paper)

ISBN:9780807858073 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN:0807858072 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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