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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
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Index.
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.