LEADER 03681nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910461876703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-73337-4 010 $a0-8203-4468-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276451 035 $a(EBL)1222468 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755584 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755584 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10731630 035 $a(PQKB)11166571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1222468 035 $a(OCoLC)818415855 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18992 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1222468 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10621790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL404587 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276451 100 $a20120514d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe empire abroad and the empire at home$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican American literature and the era of overseas expansion /$fJohn Cullen Gruesser 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (168 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-4406-0 311 $a0-8203-3434-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aLiterature and globalization 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and globalization. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aGruesser$b John Cullen$f1959-$0882102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461876703321 996 $aThe empire abroad and the empire at home$91970336 997 $aUNINA