The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Empire at Home and Abroad 1 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 19 Chapter 2. Wars Abroad and at Home in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio and The Hindered Hand 39 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 War 63 Chapter 4. Annexation in the Pacific and Asian Conspiracy in Central America in James Weldon Johnson’s Unproduced Operettas 96 Coda: Pauline Hopkins, the Colored American Magazine, and the Critique of Empire Abroad and at Home in “Talma Gordon” 113 Notes 127 Works Cited 139 Index 153 This page intentionally left blank ...