Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars - Brossura

Odum, Howard W.

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ISBN 10: 025321923X ISBN 13: 9780253219237

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

One of the few depictions of African Americans in World War I, Wings on My Feet (1929) follows the tale of Black Ulysses, John Wesley "Left Wing" Gordon, begun in Howard W. Odum’s Rainbow Round My Shoulder (IUP, 2006). On one level, the novel continues a symbolic journey of the African American spirit; on another, it tracks the experiences of one black soldier from draft to training, shipping out, landing, fighting, returning stateside, and reintegrating into society. The book also explores broader social issues of race, war, and prejudice. As the subtitle makes clear, it is the story not of one war but the various wars Black Ulysses has endured before, during, and after World War I.

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L'autore:

Howard W. Odum (1884–1954) was a sociologist, chiefly known in academic circles for his important studies of the South. Others knew him for his collections of black folksongs—The Negro and His Songs (1925) and Negro Workaday Songs (1926) prepared in collaboration with Guy B. Johnson—and for three "novels" based on the life of a black laborer and known collectively as the Black Ulysses Trilogy.

Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Book by Odum Howard W

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 025321923X
• ISBN 13: 9780253219237
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328