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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... pain would serve a transcendent purpose, the song also inspired Julia Ward Howe's ''Battle Hymn of the Republic,'' which continues to fortify the American public in times of sorrow. This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by ...
... pain would serve a transcendent purpose, the song also inspired Julia Ward Howe's ''Battle Hymn of the Republic,'' which continues to fortify the American public in times of sorrow. This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by ...
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... pain produces political community substantiated a vision of the nation rejuvenated by the deaths of soldiers. Brown's martyrdom, an instance of the radical consequences of compassion, brings to culmination a tradition of abolitionist ...
... pain produces political community substantiated a vision of the nation rejuvenated by the deaths of soldiers. Brown's martyrdom, an instance of the radical consequences of compassion, brings to culmination a tradition of abolitionist ...
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... pain of others and to act on their behalf.9 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 ...
... pain of others and to act on their behalf.9 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 ...
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... pain, transmitted through the vulnerable body of the sympathetic listener or reader, will produce a compassionate community.11 Such extraordinary confidence in the power of narration to bridge experiential distance helped antislavery ...
... pain, transmitted through the vulnerable body of the sympathetic listener or reader, will produce a compassionate community.11 Such extraordinary confidence in the power of narration to bridge experiential distance helped antislavery ...
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... pain in the process of identifying with her, often becomes the object of scrutiny in abolitionist texts. In anatomizing the process of readerly identification, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler uses the term mental metempsychosis ...
... pain in the process of identifying with her, often becomes the object of scrutiny in abolitionist texts. In anatomizing the process of readerly identification, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler uses the term mental metempsychosis ...
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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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