Black GI’s homecoming is the focus of Gerima’s seminal third fiction work. The past and present interweave as Gerima traces the journey of Nay Charles (John Anderson), eight years back from the frontlines in Vietnam, as he drifts through the streets of Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Again, Gerima returns to the struggle of the alienated... Read more »
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