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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... punishment. Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing, studying, and disciplining African American bodies. Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and ...
... punishment. Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing, studying, and disciplining African American bodies. Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and ...
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... punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves. Slavery, he predicted, ''will never be purged away; but with Blood.''19 Anticipating widespread violence, Brown rehearsed one of the most ...
... punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves. Slavery, he predicted, ''will never be purged away; but with Blood.''19 Anticipating widespread violence, Brown rehearsed one of the most ...
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... punishing God, the spectacle of mass death on the battlefield promised a radical reordering that would pave the way for equality and harmony. At the site of execution ... punishment. In doing so, legislators implicitly 10 A introduction.
... punishing God, the spectacle of mass death on the battlefield promised a radical reordering that would pave the way for equality and harmony. At the site of execution ... punishment. In doing so, legislators implicitly 10 A introduction.
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... punishment. In doing so, legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and military service. In abolitionist discourse, the scene of corporal punishment, in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained ...
... punishment. In doing so, legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and military service. In abolitionist discourse, the scene of corporal punishment, in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained ...
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Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and, in this way, mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death. Viewed in this light, the war dead not only redressed the sin of ...
Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and, in this way, mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death. Viewed in this light, the war dead not only redressed the sin of ...
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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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