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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... home . Together , they have schooled me in the spirit of improvisation and the sense of hope I needed to write this book . JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... home . Together , they have schooled me in the spirit of improvisation and the sense of hope I needed to write this book . JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for.
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for.
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for the activist , histories must always remain open , like a wound . —James Dawes , The Language of War ( 2oo2 ) In ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for the activist , histories must always remain open , like a wound . —James Dawes , The Language of War ( 2oo2 ) In ...
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... narrative must coexist , however , with the dev- astating consequences of combat - the ruin of body , mind , and spirit . Imagining that the battlefield dead nourished the earth as they decayed , Civil War artists and politicians ...
... narrative must coexist , however , with the dev- astating consequences of combat - the ruin of body , mind , and spirit . Imagining that the battlefield dead nourished the earth as they decayed , Civil War artists and politicians ...
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... establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not only ex- cluded the dead from a religious narrative of burial and resurrection but also from forms of community that depended on the body INTRODUCTION 7.
... establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not only ex- cluded the dead from a religious narrative of burial and resurrection but also from forms of community that depended on the body INTRODUCTION 7.
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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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