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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... antebellum precedent. I focus on three discursive contexts: sentiment, science, and punishment. Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing, studying, and ...
... antebellum precedent. I focus on three discursive contexts: sentiment, science, and punishment. Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing, studying, and ...
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... Antebellum death rituals objectified the dead and, in doing so, affirmed their ongoing influence. During the Civil War, however, it was impossible to honor the dead in customary ways. Dead soldiers were rarely transported home for ...
... Antebellum death rituals objectified the dead and, in doing so, affirmed their ongoing influence. During the Civil War, however, it was impossible to honor the dead in customary ways. Dead soldiers were rarely transported home for ...
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... antebellum period attention shifted away from ''the corruptibility of the dead body,'' as the ''process of disintegration'' was subordinated to an ''idealized spiritual continuity.''14 Yet during the war the body's decomposition emerged ...
... antebellum period attention shifted away from ''the corruptibility of the dead body,'' as the ''process of disintegration'' was subordinated to an ''idealized spiritual continuity.''14 Yet during the war the body's decomposition emerged ...
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... Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interiority was simply embodied; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person. Thus the corpse, and ...
... Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interiority was simply embodied; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person. Thus the corpse, and ...
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... antebellum United States, they appear to be an effect of the state's intentional violence. This perspective, however, was rarely available in the culture of the Civil War. Narratives of divine retribution described soldiers as ...
... antebellum United States, they appear to be an effect of the state's intentional violence. This perspective, however, was rarely available in the culture of the Civil War. Narratives of divine retribution described soldiers as ...
Contenido
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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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