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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In the absence of suffering - so the story goes - people grow complacent , taking the many privileges of citizenship for granted . Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a ...
In the absence of suffering - so the story goes - people grow complacent , taking the many privileges of citizenship for granted . Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a ...
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In Uncle Tom's Cabin , the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters — white and black , enslaved and free , Northern and Southern — allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slav- ery ...
In Uncle Tom's Cabin , the emotional suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters — white and black , enslaved and free , Northern and Southern — allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slav- ery ...
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... that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . ... and reform , they would suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf ...
... that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . ... and reform , they would suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf ...
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... shared by many Protestant denominations , that America had been chosen to suffer special tribulations that would precede ... was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's ...
... shared by many Protestant denominations , that America had been chosen to suffer special tribulations that would precede ... was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's ...
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... eighteenth century on- ward , sympathy , rather than force , provided the ideal basis for social order , and the display of state power appeared repugnant to spectators who responded compassionately to the criminal's suffering .
... eighteenth century on- ward , sympathy , rather than force , provided the ideal basis for social order , and the display of state power appeared repugnant to spectators who responded compassionately to the criminal's suffering .
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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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