John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarSinging "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 m |
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This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by returning to the ma- terial contexts that gave John Brown's corpse and other dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent ...
This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by returning to the ma- terial contexts that gave John Brown's corpse and other dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent ...
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I focus on three discursive contexts : sentiment , science , and punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions ... In the context of a war initially fought to stem ...
I focus on three discursive contexts : sentiment , science , and punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions ... In the context of a war initially fought to stem ...
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While domestic death rituals employed the corpse's materiality as an expressive medium intended to manifest the relatedness between the living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for ...
While domestic death rituals employed the corpse's materiality as an expressive medium intended to manifest the relatedness between the living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for ...
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Brinton's work , as he describes it , was to produce a detailed context for every bone fragment or bullet he could find and in doing so transform the generic nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification ...
Brinton's work , as he describes it , was to produce a detailed context for every bone fragment or bullet he could find and in doing so transform the generic nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification ...
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It resembled slavery , which employed the threat of vio- lence to extract the body's resources and deny self - possession to the en- slaved individual . In the context of the emerging science of anatomy , the meaning of the body after ...
It resembled slavery , which employed the threat of vio- lence to extract the body's resources and deny self - possession to the en- slaved individual . In the context of the emerging science of anatomy , the meaning of the body after ...
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The Blood of Millions John Browns Body Public Violence and Political Community | 14 |
The Blood of Black Men Rethinking Radical Science | 40 |
This Compost Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
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| Título | John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Cultural studies of the United States |
| Autor | Franny Nudelman |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 080785557X, 9780807855577 |
| Largo | 226 páginas |
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