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06-reviews 6/4/03 11:05 AM Page 331 Reviews 331 memory. Despite its sermonic tone, Blight sees Du Bois’s epic Black Recon- struction as an indictment of American historiography, and a “forceful rein- terpretation” of the American past that served the political purpose of black Americans (243). Beyond the Battlefield is an outstanding collection of essays. One of the pioneers in the field of collective memory and the U.S. Civil War, Blight persuasively enjoins his readers to look beyond the landscape of the battle- fields themselves and consider the bigger stakes emanating from them. The legacy of the war and the memory of it is still plagued by racial tension and discord, and we would do well to contemplate the fundamental causes and purposes of this great struggle. Blight writes exceedingly well, and his essays are well crafted. His argu- ments are lucid and concise, and are buttressed with impressive scholarship. His lecture delivered at the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the Saint- Gauden’s Shaw Memorial borders on sheer eloquence. Again, his essay on Frederick Douglass’s autobiographies captures an emotional context in ways that most other reflections fail to incorporate. One of the transparent limitations of this study is that
Biography – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jul 8, 2003
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