John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2015 M12 1 - 240 páginas Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the development of national identity. Revisiting the culture of the Civil War, Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death and explores alternative ways of depicting the violence of war. Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era. Throughout, Nudelman focuses not only on representations of the dead but also on practical methods for handling, studying, and commemorating corpses. She narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the dead: whether in the anatomy classroom or the Army Medical Museum, at the military scaffold or the national cemetery, the corpse was prized as a source of authority. Integrating the study of death, oppression, and war, John Brown's Body makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that meditates on the relationship between violence and culture. |
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... Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white and black, enslaved and free, Northern and Southern—allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slavery.10 Eliza Harris ...
... Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white and black, enslaved and free, Northern and Southern—allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slavery.10 Eliza Harris ...
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... Tom's Cabin. Taking up cherished justifications for war in light of the bodies of dead soldiers and slaves, I hope not only to offer historical context for how we continue to think about death in war but also to move toward a ...
... Tom's Cabin. Taking up cherished justifications for war in light of the bodies of dead soldiers and slaves, I hope not only to offer historical context for how we continue to think about death in war but also to move toward a ...
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... of slave suffering setting in motion a chain of responsive anguish that would culminate in the eradication of slavery itself. In ''The Story of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin''' (1878), Harriet Beecher 18 A the blood of millions.
... of slave suffering setting in motion a chain of responsive anguish that would culminate in the eradication of slavery itself. In ''The Story of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin''' (1878), Harriet Beecher 18 A the blood of millions.
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... Tom's death. She was ''perfectly overcome by it, and could scarcely restrain the convulsion of tears and sobbings that shook her frame.''10 This encounter initiates a series of exchanges in which Tom's suffering, conveyed through the ...
... Tom's death. She was ''perfectly overcome by it, and could scarcely restrain the convulsion of tears and sobbings that shook her frame.''10 This encounter initiates a series of exchanges in which Tom's suffering, conveyed through the ...
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... Tom's deathbed, Stowe again turns our attention away from his physical suffering and toward the redemptive sorrow of those moved by Tom's example: Sambo, Quimbo, Cassy, and others are converted to Christianity by Tom's death. Rather ...
... Tom's deathbed, Stowe again turns our attention away from his physical suffering and toward the redemptive sorrow of those moved by Tom's example: Sambo, Quimbo, Cassy, and others are converted to Christianity by Tom's death. Rather ...
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Rethinking Racial Science | 40 |
Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
4 Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
5 After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
Index | 213 |
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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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