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)
Introduction
A New Kind of Nation – Amputation, Reconstruction, and the Promise of Black Citizenship
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 Introduction lays out the theoretical and political stakes of the book. It shows how abolitionist white radicals saw enslavement as a diseased part of the national body that had to be lopped off. Through an exploration of political speeches, cartoons, song-sheets, sermons, fiction, and poetry, the author shows how the amputated bodies of Civil War veterans represented the possibility of a new kind of nation that had Black citizenship at its core.
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- Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction , pp. 1 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024