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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... wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death. In light of a history of institutionalized violence directed against free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years, wartime carnage does not appear to be an inevitable ...
... wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death. In light of a history of institutionalized violence directed against free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years, wartime carnage does not appear to be an inevitable ...
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... wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected, even elevated, the corpse's absence and, by extension, the mass scale of death in war. Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield ...
... wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected, even elevated, the corpse's absence and, by extension, the mass scale of death in war. Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield ...
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... wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification that resembled other systems for ordering large quantities of men, supplies, and information. Brinton insists that his museum does not represent a ''collection of ...
... wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification that resembled other systems for ordering large quantities of men, supplies, and information. Brinton insists that his museum does not represent a ''collection of ...
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... retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents, or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved. During wartime, however, divine retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and duration introduction a 9.
... retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents, or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved. During wartime, however, divine retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and duration introduction a 9.
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... wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations. In a millennial context, violence appeared ...
... wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations. In a millennial context, violence appeared ...
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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