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

Chinn, Sarah E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009442694 ISBN 13 : 9781009442695

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sarah E. Chinn is Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of three other books: Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000), The Invention of Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (2007), and Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (2017), which won the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance from the American Theatre Library Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009442694
• ISBN 13: 9781009442695
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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