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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... Civil War's most difficult practical effect—the presence of so many dead bodies—became the source of its greatest abstraction: national union and rebirth.3The song ''John Brown's Body,'' from which I take my title, Introduction.
... Civil War's most difficult practical effect—the presence of so many dead bodies—became the source of its greatest abstraction: national union and rebirth.3The song ''John Brown's Body,'' from which I take my title, Introduction.
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... 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 returning to the material contexts that gave ...
... 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 returning to the material contexts that gave ...
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... song ''John Brown's Body,'' Specimen Days takes the corpse's gradual disappearance to best describe the way that individual death radiates through a larger community. Drawing on an evangelical commitment to the ongoing presence of the ...
... song ''John Brown's Body,'' Specimen Days takes the corpse's gradual disappearance to best describe the way that individual death radiates through a larger community. Drawing on an evangelical commitment to the ongoing presence of the ...
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... song, soldiers celebrated the power of Brown's body, as it disappeared, to produce a spirited community that found expression in ''three rousing cheers for the Union.'' And yet, even as the song translated death into martial enthusiasm ...
... song, soldiers celebrated the power of Brown's body, as it disappeared, to produce a spirited community that found expression in ''three rousing cheers for the Union.'' And yet, even as the song translated death into martial enthusiasm ...
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... song suggests that progress begins with the body's demise. In this way, Brown's example may have helped soldiers envision their own deaths as a source of collective rejuvenation; the song encouraged soldiers to believe that an ...
... song suggests that progress begins with the body's demise. In this way, Brown's example may have helped soldiers envision their own deaths as a source of collective rejuvenation; the song encouraged soldiers to believe that an ...
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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