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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I focus on three discursive contexts : sentiment , science , and punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining ...
I focus on three discursive contexts : sentiment , science , and punishment . Each allows us to understand the cultural significance of dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining ...
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From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic violence that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood .
From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic violence that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood .
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To the extent that the wartime state appeared to be the surrogate for a punishing God , the spectacle of mass death on the ... In August 1861 , shortly after the war had begun , Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment .
To the extent that the wartime state appeared to be the surrogate for a punishing God , the spectacle of mass death on the ... In August 1861 , shortly after the war had begun , Congress outlawed whipping as a military punishment .
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whipping as a military punishment . In doing so , legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which ...
whipping as a military punishment . In doing so , legislators implicitly acknowledged the inflammatory comparison between slavery and mili- tary service . In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which ...
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rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin of slavery but also confirmed America's special status as ...
rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin of slavery but also confirmed America's special status as ...
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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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