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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... particular acts of destruction reverberate across time and space . By contextualizing the belief that violence regenerates , I mean to interrogate the assumption that bloodshed is the necessary , unrivaled means of periodically ...
... particular acts of destruction reverberate across time and space . By contextualizing the belief that violence regenerates , I mean to interrogate the assumption that bloodshed is the necessary , unrivaled means of periodically ...
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... particular interests and beliefs . Likewise , remembering the dead is a matter of deliberation and craft . I scour the culture of slavery and war to find those rare moments when the dead appear unavailable to transformation - beyond ...
... particular interests and beliefs . Likewise , remembering the dead is a matter of deliberation and craft . I scour the culture of slavery and war to find those rare moments when the dead appear unavailable to transformation - beyond ...
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... particular sympathy for Eliza , who has fled the Shelby plantation after learning that her son has been sold to a slave trader . Senator Bird expresses his sympathy not only by spiriting Eliza and Harry away to the relative safety of ...
... particular sympathy for Eliza , who has fled the Shelby plantation after learning that her son has been sold to a slave trader . Senator Bird expresses his sympathy not only by spiriting Eliza and Harry away to the relative safety of ...
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... particular dead person . Thus the corpse , and the meaning produced from it , re- mained closely associated with a given individual . Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist ...
... particular dead person . Thus the corpse , and the meaning produced from it , re- mained closely associated with a given individual . Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist ...
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... particular , harmonized a secular view of violence as a means to self - determination with the millennial expectation that war would usher in a better age for humankind . Frederick Douglass described the nation at war as enslaved by its ...
... particular , harmonized a secular view of violence as a means to self - determination with the millennial expectation that war would usher in a better age for humankind . Frederick Douglass described the nation at war as enslaved by its ...
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 |
213 | |
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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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