Repairing Police Action after the Korean War in Toni Morrison's Home.
Narrating the fictional story of an African American veteran of the desegregated Korean War, Toni Morrison's 2012 novel Home links the violence of US military "police action" in Korea to the long history of police violence at home. This article argues that Home's critical portrayal of the Korean War...
| Publicado en: | Radical History Review no. 137; pp. 119 - 141 |
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Duke University Press
May2020
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