Tara Revisited Women, War and the Plantation Legend

NY: Abbeville Press. Near Fine. 1995. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0789201593 . Map endpapers; frontispiece of Vivian Leigh as Scarlet O'hara in Gone With the Wind. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. : Of the various communities of agents that created nineteenth-century American life, it is the inner lives of women, along with those of people of color, which remain largely 'terra incognito' even to late twentieth-century readers. And of the various communities of nineteenth-century women, none is more complex or enigmatic than that of women in the South. The author provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the Civil War: the heroic African-American women who struggled for freedom, the tireless nurses who faced gruesome duties, the intriguing handful who donned uniforms, and those brave women who spied and even died for the Confederacy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 20851 .