Missouri's War: The Civil War in Documents Contributor(s): Siddali, Silvana R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0821417320 ISBN-13: 9780821417324 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century--to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history--literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation-- that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
Dewey: 977.803 |
LCCN: 2009024626 |
Series: Civil War in the Great Interior |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.85 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Missouri |
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Publisher Description: Winner of a 2011 "Distinguished Achievement in Literature" award, Missouri Humanities Council Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the Middle West, Missouri faced a unique dilemma. The state formed the gateway between east and west, as well as one of the borders between the two contending armies. Moreover, because Missouri was the only slave state in the Great Interior, the conflicts that were tearing the nation apart were also starkly evident within the state. Deep divisions between Southern and Union supporters, as well as guerrilla violence on the western border, created a terrible situation for civilians who lived through the attacks of bushwhackers and Jayhawkers. |