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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... identity, indeed the sacrifice of life itself, in the name of national community. While commemorative objects defied the process of decomposition, helping people to remember the dead as if they were unchanged, organic imagery described ...
... identity, indeed the sacrifice of life itself, in the name of national community. While commemorative objects defied the process of decomposition, helping people to remember the dead as if they were unchanged, organic imagery described ...
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... identity, thus rendering the corpse useful to the community. It resembled slavery, which employed the threat of violence to extract the body's resources and deny self-possession to the enslaved individual. In the context of the emerging ...
... identity, thus rendering the corpse useful to the community. It resembled slavery, which employed the threat of violence to extract the body's resources and deny self-possession to the enslaved individual. In the context of the emerging ...
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... identity on a group and to grant that identity political legitimacy. Abolitionists who supported Brown took their cues from Brown himself: describing the raid on Harpers Ferry as an example of sympathy put into practice, they viewed the ...
... identity on a group and to grant that identity political legitimacy. Abolitionists who supported Brown took their cues from Brown himself: describing the raid on Harpers Ferry as an example of sympathy put into practice, they viewed the ...
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... identity?15 Shirley Samuels describes the ''corporealizing and transcendentalizing double impulse of sentimental discourse.''16 Indeed, it is this double impulse that allows the reader to acknowledge the suffering of others and to ...
... identity?15 Shirley Samuels describes the ''corporealizing and transcendentalizing double impulse of sentimental discourse.''16 Indeed, it is this double impulse that allows the reader to acknowledge the suffering of others and to ...
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... identity altogether. While Phillips uses the language of blood to distinguish between those who die for themselves and those who die for others, in his courtroom speech Brown refuses this distinction. Blood shed, first by slaves and ...
... identity altogether. While Phillips uses the language of blood to distinguish between those who die for themselves and those who die for others, in his courtroom speech Brown refuses this distinction. Blood shed, first by slaves and ...
Contenido
1 | |
14 | |
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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