Re-membering and surviving: African American fiction of the Vietnam War

Introduction

Chapter 1. Historical and Literary Background

Chapter 2. Untangling a Paradoxical Web for the Black Warrior: The Anansean Motif in Captain Blackman

Chapter 3. Reading the Signs: Re-Membering the Legacy of Voodoo as Path to Empowerment in De Mojo Blues

Chapter 4. Playin' It by Ear: The "Jazzerly" Sound of Survival in Tragic Magic

Chapter 5. Transcending Abstractions by Re-Membering Self in George Davis's Coming Home

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Literary Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam

Appendix 2. Visual and Musical Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam.