Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898–1976
ISBN: 9781501729959
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
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"The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the...


Harilaos Stecopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the coeditor, with Michael Uebel, of Race and the Subject of Masculinities.

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