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

Chinn, Sarah E.

Cambridge University Press

07/2024

280

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9781009442695

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Introduction: a new kind of nation: Amputation, reconstruction, and the promise of black citizenship; 1. Giving up the ghost: the dead child vs. the amputated limb; 2. 'Strewn promiscuously about': limbs and what happens to them; 3. 1860 or 1865? Amending the national body; 4. 'I don't care a rag for the Union as it was': amputation, the past, and the work of the Freedmen's Bureau; 5. Shaking hands: manual politics and the end of reconstruction; Conclusion: Eloquent Emptiness.