Description
Book SynopsisThis collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation.
Trade Review"The sesquicentennial needs this kind of jarring, probing look at all the fragmented artistic expression that the Civil War continues to stimulate." (David W. Blight, Yale University)"
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction. The Undead War
Chapter 1.The Lincoln- Obama Moment
Chapter 2. The Confederate Battle Flag and the Desertion of the Lost Cause Tradition
Chapter 3. Celebrating Freedom: Juneteenth and the Emancipation Festival Tradition
Chapter 4. The Civil War and Contemporary Southern Literature
Chapter 5. Lincoln and the Civil War in Twenty-First-Century Photography
Chapter 6. Reenactment and Relic: The Civil War in Contemporary Art
Chapter 7. African American Artists Interpret the Civil War in a Post-Soul Age
Afterword: War/Memory/History: Toward a Remixed Understanding
Acknowledgments
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
