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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Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community . The idea that violence breeds national unity and , indeed , harmony , has allowed U.S. citizens to elevate the ...
Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community . The idea that violence breeds national unity and , indeed , harmony , has allowed U.S. citizens to elevate the ...
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Circulating among friends and relatives , they also established mourning as an opportunity to identify with others who had experienced similar grief . As they passed from hand to hand , commemo- rative objects , which embodied the ...
Circulating among friends and relatives , they also established mourning as an opportunity to identify with others who had experienced similar grief . As they passed from hand to hand , commemo- rative objects , which embodied the ...
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also from forms of community that depended on the body as a figure for common experience . Subject to forms of violence typically reserved for the disenfranchised , dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name ...
also from forms of community that depended on the body as a figure for common experience . Subject to forms of violence typically reserved for the disenfranchised , dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name ...
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... hardly a matter of experience , identity , or essence — was determined by professionals able to extract knowledge and , by extension , authority from it . The Scaffold Although John Brown was a celebrated martyr during the war years ...
... hardly a matter of experience , identity , or essence — was determined by professionals able to extract knowledge and , by extension , authority from it . The Scaffold Although John Brown was a celebrated martyr during the war years ...
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Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , nature of this experience required the expression of a severe and exacting discipline to keep soldiers in line . The Civil War witnessed an unprecedented number of Union ...
Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , nature of this experience required the expression of a severe and exacting discipline to keep soldiers in line . The Civil War witnessed an unprecedented number of Union ...
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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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