Book contents
- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Giving Up the Ghost
- Chapter 2 “Strewn promiscuously about”
- Chapter 3 1860 or 1865? Amending the National Body
- Chapter 4 “I don’t care a rag for ‘the Union as it was’”
- Chapter 5 Shaking Hands
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
Conclusion
Eloquent Emptiness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2024
Book contents
- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Giving Up the Ghost
- Chapter 2 “Strewn promiscuously about”
- Chapter 3 1860 or 1865? Amending the National Body
- Chapter 4 “I don’t care a rag for ‘the Union as it was’”
- Chapter 5 Shaking Hands
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
Summary
The book concludes with a meditation on the movement to remove statues of Confederate veterans and officers from public spaces throughout the South. This development is seen as an extension of the theory of amputation promulgated throughout the book: that removal is both a reminder of a white supremacist past and a repudiation of it, as well as a hopeful projection of an antiracist future.
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- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction , pp. 191 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024