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This superb analytical voice examines literature by four black writers--John A. Williams, Wesley Brown, A. R. Flowers, and George Davis--who are masterful storytellers shaped in the caldron of war. Through her attention to these figures, Hanshaw reveals an American voice that has been kept in obscurity. Here, the historical background illuminates a postmodern imagination. --YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

"""This superb analytical voice examines literature by four black writers--John A. Williams, Wesley Brown, A. R. Flowers, and George Davis--who are masterful storytellers shaped in the caldron of war. Through her attention to these figures, Hanshaw reveals an American voice that has been kept in obscurity. Here, the historical background illuminates a postmodern imagination."" --YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems"

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Shirley A. James Hanshaw is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Mississippi State University where she was instrumental in establishing the first African American Studies Program. She is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Danforth Associateship for Outstanding Teaching in the Sciences and Humanities, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

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