"I Am Colored Too": Cross-Racial Encounters on the Battlefield in War-Era Narratives of the Pacific Theater.
This article examines three World War II novels set in the Pacific: Jewish American author Ira Wolfert's An Act of Love (1948) , Jewish American author Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948) , and African American author John Oliver Killens's And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962). Based on the...
| Publicado en: | Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 147 - 166 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Texas Press
Summer2025
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| Sumario: | This article examines three World War II novels set in the Pacific: Jewish American author Ira Wolfert's An Act of Love (1948) , Jewish American author Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948) , and African American author John Oliver Killens's And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962). Based on their firsthand experiences on the battlefront, these authors depict how racism toward non-Anglo-Americans is detrimental in the war against fascism worldwide. The authors also consider the anti-Japanese sentiment during the war and the preexisting "yellow peril" racism on the home front, disrupting the US master narrative of World War II as "good" and "necessary." |
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