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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This makes it possible to interrelate different kinds of violence - slavery , murder , war , genocide — and begin to comprehend the ways that particular acts of destruction reverberate across time and space .
This makes it possible to interrelate different kinds of violence - slavery , murder , war , genocide — and begin to comprehend the ways that particular acts of destruction reverberate across time and space .
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... free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years , wartime car- nage does not appear to be an inevitable manifestation of the urge to collective renewal but rather the expression of particular interests and beliefs .
... free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years , wartime car- nage does not appear to be an inevitable manifestation of the urge to collective renewal but rather the expression of particular interests and beliefs .
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In light of their recent loss , Senator Bird and his wife feel a 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 ...
In light of their recent loss , Senator Bird and his wife feel a 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 ...
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Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person .
Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person .
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The enlistment of black soldiers , in 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 .
The enlistment of black soldiers , in 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 .
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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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