Re-Membering and Surviving: African American Fiction of the Vietnam War
Shirley A. James Hanshaw
Michigan State University Press
The first book-length critical study of the Black experience in Vietnam and its aftermath as depicted in four novels that revealed a common history of racism and exploitation that African Americans and Vietnamese shared — a common history that sometimes resulted in empathy with and compassion for the so-called enemy. This depiction is a unique contribution by the Black novelist to American war literature.