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Re-Membering and Surviving - African American Fiction of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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Re-Membering and Surviving - African American Fiction of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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The first book-length 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
expressive culture. It focuses on four novels: Captain Blackman
(1972) by John A. Williams, Tragic Magic (1978) by Wesley Brown,
Coming Home (1971) by George Davis, and De Mojo Blues (1985) by A.
R. Flowers. Discussions of the novels are framed within the
historical context of all wars prior to Vietnam in which Black
Americans fought. The success or failure of the hero on his
identity quest is predicated upon the extent to which he can
reconnect with African or African American cultural memory. He is
engaged therefore in "re-membering", a term laden with the
specificity of race that implies a cultural history comprised of
African retentions and an interdependent relationship with the
community for survival. The reader will find that a common history
of racism and exploitation that African Americans and Vietnamese
share sometimes results in the hero's empathy with and compassion
for the so-called enemy, a unique contribution of the black
novelist to American war literature.
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