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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... Antislavery writers, for example, used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white ...
... Antislavery writers, for example, used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white ...
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... antislavery radicals in the prewar years: if white Americans did not repent, and reform, they would suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents, or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved. During wartime ...
... antislavery radicals in the prewar years: if white Americans did not repent, and reform, they would suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents, or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved. During wartime ...
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... antislavery activism. Embracing Brown's resistance to unjust laws, they rededicated their commitment to a ''higher law'' and renewed their sense of collective purpose. By contrast, state authorities reasserted the power of the law in ...
... antislavery activism. Embracing Brown's resistance to unjust laws, they rededicated their commitment to a ''higher law'' and renewed their sense of collective purpose. By contrast, state authorities reasserted the power of the law in ...
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... Antislavery authors and orators hoped to convert audiences to the cause by conveying the slave's physical and emotional pain: they imagined representations of slave suffering setting in motion a chain of responsive anguish that would ...
... Antislavery authors and orators hoped to convert audiences to the cause by conveying the slave's physical and emotional pain: they imagined representations of slave suffering setting in motion a chain of responsive anguish that would ...
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... antislavery novel as the result of a mysterious encounter with a brutalized slave. She tells her readers that the ''first part of the book ever committed to writing was the death of Uncle Tom.'' While taking communion at a small church ...
... antislavery novel as the result of a mysterious encounter with a brutalized slave. She tells her readers that the ''first part of the book ever committed to writing was the death of Uncle Tom.'' While taking communion at a small church ...
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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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