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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Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand the bonds of community . The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the ...
Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand the bonds of community . The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the ...
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7 The struggle over Brown's body suggests the significance of the corpse -actual and imagined ... In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that ...
7 The struggle over Brown's body suggests the significance of the corpse -actual and imagined ... In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that ...
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While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss ...
While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss ...
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In the face of such difficulties , 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 .
In the face of such difficulties , 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 .
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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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