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

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. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Sarah E. (Hunter College, City University of New York) Chinn Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises Number of pages: 280 Collection: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 23 Cover type: Hardback