Strange Sad War Revolving
Regular price
€92.99
1865-1876
A01=Luke Mancuso
Author_Luke Mancuso
Black Citizenship
Category=DSBF
Category=DSC
Category=JBSL
Category=JPVH
Category=NHTS
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Legislation
Civil War Amendments
Congressional Workshop
Enforcement Acts
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Race Relations
Reconstruction
Second Reconstruction
Walt Whitman
Product details
- ISBN 9781571131256
- Weight: 406g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Analysis of Whitman's reflection of civil rights legislation in his work, 1865-1876.
Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis seeks to point the way for a needed recovery of Whitman's 1865-1876 publications by embedding them in the legislative discourse of black emancipation and its stormy aftermath. The supposed absence of race relations in Whitman's post-war texts has recently become a source of curiosity and denunciation. However, from 1865 to 1876, the Congressional 'workshop' was seeking to forge interracial civil rights legislation through surveillance of the implementation of such egalitarianism, as manifested in the Civil War Amendments, the Enforcement Acts of 1870-71, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
The analysis of the hegemonic shift in Whitman's implementation of his democratic poetics constitutes the innovative contribution in these pages. By welcoming ex-slaves into the Union, as well as ex-Rebel states, Whitman's Reconstruction texts enlisted his representations in the federalizing rhetoric of civil rights protection that would lapse for almost a century, before recovery in the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s and 1960s.
