Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-373) and index.
Contents
Topsy-turvy: civil war and Uncle Tom's cabin -- A wound of one's own: Louisia May Alcott's body politic -- Black woman, white house: race and redress in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes -- Confederate counterfeit: the case of the cross-dressed civil war soldier -- "Army of civilizers": Frances Harper's warring fictions -- The Rhett and the black: Sex and race in Gone with the wind.