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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Indeed , the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
Indeed , the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
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In this way , the popular tune exemplifies the tendency of nationalist culture to abstract the effects of violence . Reassuring soldiers who contemplated imminent death that their pain would serve a transcendent purpose , the song also ...
In this way , the popular tune exemplifies the tendency of nationalist culture to abstract the effects of violence . Reassuring soldiers who contemplated imminent death that their pain would serve a transcendent purpose , the song also ...
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... soldiering an effect of coercion analogous to slavery itself . In August 1861 , shortly after the war had begun , Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment . In doing so , 10 INTRODUCTION.
... soldiering an effect of coercion analogous to slavery itself . In August 1861 , shortly after the war had begun , Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment . In doing so , 10 INTRODUCTION.
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When we consider soldiers ' corpses in relation to the history of corporal punishment , closely associated with slavery in the antebellum United States , they appear to be an effect of the state's intentional vio- lence .
When we consider soldiers ' corpses in relation to the history of corporal punishment , closely associated with slavery in the antebellum United States , they appear to be an effect of the state's intentional vio- lence .
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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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