John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 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 m |
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... dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for ... dead son's clothing to Harry . Henry's clothes at once embody the dead boy and signify all that Harry and Henry have in ...
... dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for ... dead son's clothing to Harry . Henry's clothes at once embody the dead boy and signify all that Harry and Henry have in ...
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... dead . In the face of such difficulties , wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected , even elevated , the corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime ...
... dead . In the face of such difficulties , wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected , even elevated , the corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime ...
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... dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their interrelatedness . Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting the corpse out ...
... dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their interrelatedness . Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting the corpse out ...
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... dead body ? The question of self- ownership , so central to debates over slavery , was generalized during the Civil War . Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects ...
... dead body ? The question of self- ownership , so central to debates over slavery , was generalized during the Civil War . Antebellum death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects ...
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... dead soldier and forced to look closely at his corpse after the execution was over . Yet these spectacular executions ran the risk of jeopardizing the soldier's devotion to the army and , by extension , to the nation . Private letters ...
... dead soldier and forced to look closely at his corpse after the execution was over . Yet these spectacular executions ran the risk of jeopardizing the soldier's devotion to the army and , by extension , to the nation . Private letters ...
Contenido
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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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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