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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827715603321

Autore

Gruesser John Cullen <1959->

Titolo

The empire abroad and the empire at home : African American literature and the era of overseas expansion / / John Cullen Gruesser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-73337-4

0-8203-4468-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Imperialism in literature

Literature and globalization

African Americans - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Empire at Home and Abroad; Part 1. African American Literature and the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 1. Cuban Generals, Black Sergeants, and White Colonels: The African American Poetic Response to the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 2. Wars Abroad and at Home in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and The Hindered Hand; Part 2. African American Literature, the Philippine-American War, and Expansion in the Pacific

Chapter 3. Black Burdens, Laguna Tales, and "Citizen Tom" Narratives: African American Writing and the Philippine-American WarChapter 4. Annexation in the Pacific and Asian Conspiracy in Central America in James Weldon Johnson's Unproduced Operettas; Coda: Pauline Hopkins, the Colored American Magazine, and the Critique of Empire Abroad and at Home in "Talma Gordon"; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home , John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas



expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history. Focusing on authors who explicitly connect the empire abroad and the empire at home ( James Weldon Johnson, Sutton Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others), Gruesser examines U.S. bl