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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... scaffold. While the bodies of Edwin Coppoc and John Cook were, like Brown's, turned over to their families, Governor Wise refused to relinquish the bodies of the two black raiders, John Copeland and Shields Green. Instead, their bodies ...
... scaffold. While the bodies of Edwin Coppoc and John Cook were, like Brown's, turned over to their families, Governor Wise refused to relinquish the bodies of the two black raiders, John Copeland and Shields Green. Instead, their bodies ...
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... 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 that would punish ...
... 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 that would punish ...
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... scaffold, state violence appears intentional and effective, and soldiering an effect of coercion analogous to slavery itself. In August 1861, shortly after the war had begun, Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment. In doing ...
... scaffold, state violence appears intentional and effective, and soldiering an effect of coercion analogous to slavery itself. In August 1861, shortly after the war had begun, Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment. In doing ...
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... scaffold becomes the site of militant sympathy and criminality is politicized by the exhibition of state power. In battle, all soldiers were subject to the threat of state-sponsored violence typically directed at criminals. Ironically ...
... scaffold becomes the site of militant sympathy and criminality is politicized by the exhibition of state power. In battle, all soldiers were subject to the threat of state-sponsored violence typically directed at criminals. Ironically ...
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... scaffold; his words and gestures carried great significance as they circulated widely in the Northern press. Brown was aware that he had the power to move his audience, and he used it masterfully. As Henry David Thoreau described it ...
... scaffold; his words and gestures carried great significance as they circulated widely in the Northern press. Brown was aware that he had the power to move his audience, and he used it masterfully. As Henry David Thoreau described it ...
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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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