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Freedom Bought with Blood
Jennifer C. James
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Description for Freedom Bought with Blood
Paperback. A comprehensive study of African American war literature, this title analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the US military in 1948. It argues that the very ambivalence over the use of violence as a political instrument defines African American war writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War I, and World War II, James introduces a range of rare and understudied texts by writers such as Victor Daly, F. Grant Gilmore, William Gardner Smith, and Susie King Taylor. She argues that works by these as well as canonical writers such as William Wells Brown, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Gwendolyn Brooks mark a distinctive contribution to ... Read more
In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War I, and World War II, James introduces a range of rare and understudied texts by writers such as Victor Daly, F. Grant Gilmore, William Gardner Smith, and Susie King Taylor. She argues that works by these as well as canonical writers such as William Wells Brown, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Gwendolyn Brooks mark a distinctive contribution to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807858073
SKU
V9780807858073
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About Jennifer C. James
JENNIFER C. JAMES is assistant professor of English and Africana studies at George Washington University.
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