Rehabilitating Bodies Health, History, and the American Civil War Lisa A. Long "This is a fascinating, wide-ranging, and original book, and the first to examine the mutual constitution of bodies and historical meaning in the Civil War era."--Thomas Lutz, University of Iowa This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse."--American Literary Realism "Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative, Rehabilitating Bodies successfully lays bare 'the theoretical connection between...
Rehabilitating Bodies Health, History, and the American Civil War Lisa A. Long "This is a fascinating, wide-ranging, and original book, and the first ...
What makes someone an authority? What makes one person's knowledge more credible than another's? In the ongoing debates over racial authenticity, some attest that we can know each other's experiences simply because we are all "human," while others assume a more skeptical stance, insisting that racial differences create unbridgeable gaps in knowledge.
Bringing new perspectives to these perennial debates, the essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American...
What makes someone an authority? What makes one person's knowledge more credible than another's? In the ongoing debates over racial authenticity, s...
