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Blight’s chapter on the literature on reunion and its discontents in the beginning (like in every chapter) the fight about what the war was fought over. Most of Blight’s arguments center on this theme and how both sides differed. Later in the chapter he describes literature written about combat and prisons during the war. Blight discusses soldier’s romanticized version of combat and generals arguing their roles in the war. Was all literature on the war centered on these subjects? Was there not literature on the war itself instead of its causes? Were there any debates about battle outcomes, decision made during the war or political actions, like in modern scholarship? Logan T | Blight’s chapter on the literature on reunion and its discontents in the beginning (like in every chapter) the fight about what the war was fought over. Most of Blight’s arguments center on this theme and how both sides differed. Later in the chapter he describes literature written about combat and prisons during the war. Blight discusses soldier’s romanticized version of combat and generals arguing their roles in the war. Was all literature on the war centered on these subjects? Was there not literature on the war itself instead of its causes? Were there any debates about battle outcomes, decision made during the war or political actions, like in modern scholarship? Logan T | ||
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| + | On page 313 Blight explains that slave narratives rejected the plantation myth. Did ex-slaves want the institution of slavery to be remembered as it really was for reasons other than morality? Did former slaves care about an accurate account of slavery in the same way historians do today? Did they want people to remember that not every slave worked on a huge plantation? Or that slaves didn’t fight back by just running away but broke tools and reframed from working as hard as the master liked. Did former slaves want people to remember that slavery existed in many forms and slaves resisted there masters in many different ways. Logan T | ||
Do you think Blight's comparison of post-Civil War writers (Grant, Tourgee, Page, etc.) is an accurate reflection of the competing ideas of the war and the South in the public sphere during the time of their publications? And what about Tourgee's idea regarding the "forgetting" of the war? Obviously people hadn't forgotten about it, so what did he mean by this thought?- Victoria Y. | Do you think Blight's comparison of post-Civil War writers (Grant, Tourgee, Page, etc.) is an accurate reflection of the competing ideas of the war and the South in the public sphere during the time of their publications? And what about Tourgee's idea regarding the "forgetting" of the war? Obviously people hadn't forgotten about it, so what did he mean by this thought?- Victoria Y. | ||
