The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876Analysis 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. |
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... Leaves of Grass . 8. Afro - Americans in literature . 9. Reconstruction . I. Title . II . Series : Studies in English and American literature , linguistics , and culture ( Unnumbered ) PS3242.S58M36 1997 811'.3 - dc21 97-3940 CIP Το ...
... Leaves of Grass and the Elephant at the Raffle 2 : " Reconstruction is still in abeyance " : Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas and the Federalizing of National Identity 3 : " I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality " : The 1871-72 ...
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Contents
A vast Similitude interlocks all | 16 |
Reconstruction is still in abeyance | 51 |
The cold and bloodless electrotype | 103 |
Approach strong deliveress | 130 |
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