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Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

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Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Summary: "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. black participation in, support for, and resistance to expansion. Race consistently trumped empire for African American writers, who adopted positions based on the effects they believed expansion would have on blacks at home. Given the complexity of the debates over empire and rapidity with which events in the Caribbean and the Pacific changed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it should come as no surprise that these authors often did not maintain fixed positions on imperialism. Their stances depended on several factors, including the foreign location, the presence or absence of African American soldiers within a particular text, the stage of the author's career, and a given text's relationship to specific generic and literary traditions. No matter what their disposition was toward imperialism, the fact of U.S. expansion allowed and in many cases compelled black writers to grapple with empire. They often used texts about expansion to address the situation facing blacks at home during a period in which their citizenship rights, and their very existence, were increasingly in jeopardy."--Project Muse

Language: eng

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Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2012

Extent: 1 online resource

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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."

Isbn: 9780820344683

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Label: The empire abroad and the empire at home : African American literature and the era of overseas expansion

Title: The empire abroad and the empire at home

Title remainder: African American literature and the era of overseas expansion

Statement of responsibility: John Cullen Gruesser

Title variation: African American literature and the era of overseas expansion

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Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

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Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

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Language: eng

Summary: "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. black participation in, support for, and resistance to expansion. Race consistently trumped empire for African American writers, who adopted positions based on the effects they believed expansion would have on blacks at home. Given the complexity of the debates over empire and rapidity with which events in the Caribbean and the Pacific changed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it should come as no surprise that these authors often did not maintain fixed positions on imperialism. Their stances depended on several factors, including the foreign location, the presence or absence of African American soldiers within a particular text, the stage of the author's career, and a given text's relationship to specific generic and literary traditions. No matter what their disposition was toward imperialism, the fact of U.S. expansion allowed and in many cases compelled black writers to grapple with empire. They often used texts about expansion to address the situation facing blacks at home during a period in which their citizenship rights, and their very existence, were increasingly in jeopardy."--Project Muse

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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1959-

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Gruesser, John Cullen

Dewey number: 810.9/896073

Government publication: government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index: index present

LC call number: PS153.N5

LC item number: G785 2012eb

Literary form: non fiction

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American literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and globalization
African Americans
LITERARY CRITICISM
LITERARY CRITICISM
African Americans
Imperialism in literature
Literature and globalization
Literatur
Schwarze
Imperialismus
Kolonialismus
USA

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

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The empire abroad and the empire at home : African American literature and the era of overseas expansion

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Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2012

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents: 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."

Control code: 818415855

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Extent: 1 online resource

Form of item: online

Isbn: 9780820344683

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Other control number: ebr10621790

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

Publication

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2012

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: online resource

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Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents: 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."

Control code: 818415855

Dimensions: unknown

Extent: 1 online resource

Form of item: online

Isbn: 9780820344683

Media category: computer

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other control number: ebr10621790

http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId

404587
22573/ctt3q542r

Specific material designation: remote

System control number: (OCoLC)818415855

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