A freedom bought with blood : African American war literature from the Civil War to World War II / by Jennifer C. James.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index.

Acknowledgments -- 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.

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