Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Sarah E. Chinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2024-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009442694

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The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.