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Fiction. African American Studies. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America's wars from 1775 to 1975. Named among the most important works of fiction of the decade by the New York Times Book Review when first published in 1972, Captain Blackman is the first book to be published in Coffee House Press's Black Arts Movement reprint series. Mr. Williams has written a provocative book in which fantasy and history merge and flow. His well-researched retelling of history is valuable, his novel fascinating reading and his message compelling - Baltimore Sun.
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Marineau Carl
reviewed Captain Blackman on July 30, 2007
Captain Blackman
Ugh. one of Williams' misses -- and it misses hard. An attempt to celebrate the african american contribution to military experience turns into a repetative, shallow novel that has a few good moments overshadowed by a lack of real exploration. perhaps it was too ambitious to try and cover every war in US history? Perhaps, also, it fails to do some basic work in developing the characters (who change slightly in every war that the main character appears in). Williams seems uninterested in clearly informing the reader whether the main character simply appears in each conflict or if he lives through the times of peace in between. no one seems to notice/care that a modern man keeps showing up from nowhere.
In the end, it seems to all be a mortal-injury related dream. but by then it doesn't matter.
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