John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 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 m |
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... dissection . 7 The struggle over Brown's body suggests the significance of the corpse -actual and imagined — to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century . In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize ...
... dissection . 7 The struggle over Brown's body suggests the significance of the corpse -actual and imagined — to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century . In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize ...
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... dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection instrumentalized the body , narrowing rather than expand- ing its social significance . In this way , it severed the bonds of identifi- cation and ...
... dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection instrumentalized the body , narrowing rather than expand- ing its social significance . In this way , it severed the bonds of identifi- cation and ...
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... Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist to divorce body and identity , thus rendering the corpse useful to the community . It resembled slavery , which employed the threat ...
... Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist to divorce body and identity , thus rendering the corpse useful to the community . It resembled slavery , which employed the threat ...
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Contenido
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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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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