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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... Imagining that the battlefield dead nourished the earth as they decayed, Civil War artists and politicians cultivated a potent figure for the process through which death creates life. At times, however, the corpse—contorted, dismembered ...
... Imagining that the battlefield dead nourished the earth as they decayed, Civil War artists and politicians cultivated a potent figure for the process through which death creates life. At times, however, the corpse—contorted, dismembered ...
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... imagined—to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century. In private settings, mourners used corpses to dramatize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that, in turn, provided a model ...
... imagined—to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century. In private settings, mourners used corpses to dramatize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that, in turn, provided a model ...
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... imagined here as a sort of universal fluid, unites Brown, his family, and countless slaves.8 Combining his lifeblood with the ''blood of millions,'' Brown participates in, and radicalizes, a tradition of abolitionist sympathy that ...
... imagined here as a sort of universal fluid, unites Brown, his family, and countless slaves.8 Combining his lifeblood with the ''blood of millions,'' Brown participates in, and radicalizes, a tradition of abolitionist sympathy that ...
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... imagined pain: the suffering conjured by the abolitionist author or reader takes place in her own mind. At its most successful, identification loses sight of its object, and sympathy appears to be a closed circle in which the reader's ...
... imagined pain: the suffering conjured by the abolitionist author or reader takes place in her own mind. At its most successful, identification loses sight of its object, and sympathy appears to be a closed circle in which the reader's ...
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... imagined but real, he is able to realize and extend the premises of abolitionist sympathy. While abolitionists analogized actual and imagined suffering in an effort to produce identifications, Brown literalized this analogy by offering ...
... imagined but real, he is able to realize and extend the premises of abolitionist sympathy. While abolitionists analogized actual and imagined suffering in an effort to produce identifications, Brown literalized this analogy by offering ...
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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