Re: Vietnam in fiction from black perspective (Multiple posts)

sixties-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:03:13 -0400

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From: Daniel L Olson <olsond@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>

Sandra,

Here's a start:

AUTHOR Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
TITLE Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers
IMPRINT New York : Scholastic Inc., c1988
DESCRIPT 309 p. : map ; 22 cm
NOTE Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem
high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends
a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
SUBJECT Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Fiction
SUBJECT Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Afro-Americans -- Fiction

Dan Olson
Ohio University Libraries
Athens, Ohio

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From: "Marc J. Gilbert" <MGILBERT@nugget.ngc.peachnet.edu>

In regard to African American fiction:

Horace Coleman, In the Grass, 1995, Vietnam Generation/Burning
Cities Press, ISBN 1-885215-14-2.

Many accessible poems of interest that run from Afro-Asian kids in
Vietnam to the legacy of Shaka Zulu.

Doesn't hurt that he is a mighty fine person with universal
compassion.

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From: benjamin berry <bberry@vwc.edu>

Look at Geroge Davis, _Coming Home_ . I am afraid it is out of print but
there are a few copies around at Powells bookstore. The novel was made
into a film by Jane Fonda, but her film has little relation to the novel
(which is pretty good). George is at Rutgers - Newark.
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