John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUniversity of North Carolina Press, 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 means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the development of national identity. Revisiting the culture of the Civil War, Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death and explores alternative ways of depicting the violence of war. Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era. Throughout, Nudelman focuses not only on representations of the dead but also on practical methods for handling, studying, and commemorating corpses. She narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the dead: whether in the anatomy classroom or the Army Medical Museum, at the military scaffold or the national cemetery, the corpse was prized as a source of authority. Integrating the study of death, oppression, and war, John Brown's Body makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that meditates on the relationship between violence and culture. |
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... political dis- course that viewed democratic citizens as disembodied . This contribu- tion to political thought was compromised , however , by the tendency of the sentimental witness to appropriate the pain of the suffering victim ...
... political dis- course that viewed democratic citizens as disembodied . This contribu- tion to political thought was compromised , however , by the tendency of the sentimental witness to appropriate the pain of the suffering victim ...
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... political community . I come to the subject , however , by way of the recognition - fully realized in the twentieth century — that the body is subject to overpowering ex- ternal forces . While we continue to regard death in war as an ...
... political community . I come to the subject , however , by way of the recognition - fully realized in the twentieth century — that the body is subject to overpowering ex- ternal forces . While we continue to regard death in war as an ...
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... political community ? Might violence , if more costly , bind citizens more firmly to the state ? Arguments that foreground genealogy domesticate the difficult questions this speech raises about Lincoln's attitudes toward the political ...
... political community ? Might violence , if more costly , bind citizens more firmly to the state ? Arguments that foreground genealogy domesticate the difficult questions this speech raises about Lincoln's attitudes toward the political ...
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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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