Writing Reconstruction : Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Postwar South /

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After the Civil War, the south was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. Experiencing the long-lasting ramifications of Reconstruction firsthand, many of these writers sought to translate the era's promise int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Literature.
Gender identity in literature.
American literature.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Conscience de race dans la litterature.
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Owning up to citizenship
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson and the tourist outback of Florida
  • Sewing on the badges of servitude: Albion Tourge V. North Carolina
  • A divided river town: African American education, Storer College and the pioneer press of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
  • George washington Cable and the wages of ventriloquized peformance in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Iowa's American gothic in Arkansas: the plantation fiction of octave thanet
  • Conclusion: The stange career of reconstruction writing.

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