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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... produce fighting men . Lincoln himself imagined that the country could produce an infinite supply of soldiers . In his Annual Messages to Con- gress , Lincoln celebrated national expansion - territorial , economic , and industrial . On ...
... produce fighting men . Lincoln himself imagined that the country could produce an infinite supply of soldiers . In his Annual Messages to Con- gress , Lincoln celebrated national expansion - territorial , economic , and industrial . On ...
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... produced national unity . In " Death of Abraham Lincoln " ( 1887 ) , a lecture that Whitman delivered annually on the ... produce an in- finite supply of living soldiers . Echoing Lincoln's claim that " national re- sources , then , are ...
... produced national unity . In " Death of Abraham Lincoln " ( 1887 ) , a lecture that Whitman delivered annually on the ... produce an in- finite supply of living soldiers . Echoing Lincoln's claim that " national re- sources , then , are ...
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... produce hatred for the government and increase the spirit of lawlessness . In Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments , Benjamin Rush describes the uni- versal response to suffering : " By an immutable law of our nature ...
... produce hatred for the government and increase the spirit of lawlessness . In Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments , Benjamin Rush describes the uni- versal response to suffering : " By an immutable law of our nature ...
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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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