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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... efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric ''Violence Studies.'' As this field grows, we come to recognize that violence is, as Joseph Roach puts it, a ''form of cultural ...
... efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric ''Violence Studies.'' As this field grows, we come to recognize that violence is, as Joseph Roach puts it, a ''form of cultural ...
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... effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but also to disentangle it from the violence traditionally visited on powerless people. In the context of a war initially fought to stem the spread of ...
... effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but also to disentangle it from the violence traditionally visited on powerless people. In the context of a war initially fought to stem the spread of ...
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... effort to strengthen federal power by way of system-building that would ensure efficiency during the war and obedience in its aftermath. In June 1862, Brinton was asked to prepare ''the Surgical History of the Rebellion'' (169). He ...
... effort to strengthen federal power by way of system-building that would ensure efficiency during the war and obedience in its aftermath. In June 1862, Brinton was asked to prepare ''the Surgical History of the Rebellion'' (169). He ...
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... effort to use the scaffold to exert power and control. Brown used his trial and execution to speak out against slavery and condemn the country that was preparing to put him to death. From the scaffold, he prophesied apocalyptic violence ...
... effort to use the scaffold to exert power and control. Brown used his trial and execution to speak out against slavery and condemn the country that was preparing to put him to death. From the scaffold, he prophesied apocalyptic violence ...
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... efforts to cultivate compassion and nationalist efforts to rationalize mass violence, I will not contend that one leads inexorably to the other, or that the two are fundamentally opposed. Instead, I hope to use a set of discrete ...
... efforts to cultivate compassion and nationalist efforts to rationalize mass violence, I will not contend that one leads inexorably to the other, or that the two are fundamentally opposed. Instead, I hope to use a set of discrete ...
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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