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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... scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white and black, enslaved and free, Northern ...
... scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters—white and black, enslaved and free, Northern ...
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... on actual bodies or their surrogates, turning one of the crises of war—the corpse's absence from the scene of commemoration—to advantage. Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would function 6 A introduction.
... on actual bodies or their surrogates, turning one of the crises of war—the corpse's absence from the scene of commemoration—to advantage. Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would function 6 A introduction.
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... scene of corporal punishment, in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves, represented the excesses of slavery. Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of corporal punishment that placed ...
... scene of corporal punishment, in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves, represented the excesses of slavery. Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of corporal punishment that placed ...
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... scene down on paper. When she read it aloud to her sons, they too broke down in ''convulsions of weeping, one of them saying, through his sobs, 'O mamma, slavery is the most cursed thing in the world!''' (xix). Once published, the novel ...
... scene down on paper. When she read it aloud to her sons, they too broke down in ''convulsions of weeping, one of them saying, through his sobs, 'O mamma, slavery is the most cursed thing in the world!''' (xix). Once published, the novel ...
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... scene of slavery, this distance becomes, in turn, a great resource: antislavery writing can be viewed as a sustained meditation on the power of the imagination, and its limitations, in the face of inexperience. In lieu of the actual ...
... scene of slavery, this distance becomes, in turn, a great resource: antislavery writing can be viewed as a sustained meditation on the power of the imagination, and its limitations, in the face of inexperience. In lieu of the actual ...
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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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