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 . 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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... death rituals employed the corpse's materiality as an expressive medium intended to manifest the relatedness between the living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their ...
... death rituals employed the corpse's materiality as an expressive medium intended to manifest the relatedness between the living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their ...
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... dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name of the greater good . The Army Medical Museum , founded by the federal government in 1862 , employed a utilitarian view of the dead as a source of state authority ...
... dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name of the greater good . The Army Medical Museum , founded by the federal government in 1862 , employed a utilitarian view of the dead as a source of state authority ...
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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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... death , was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took ... man . The Republic has put one end of the chain upon the ankle of the ... bodies of outliers — criminals , insurgents , deserters , and traitors -- to articulate ...
... death , was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took ... man . The Republic has put one end of the chain upon the ankle of the ... bodies of outliers — criminals , insurgents , deserters , and traitors -- to articulate ...
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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