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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... death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership . In Uncle Tom's Cabin , the emotional suffering of grieving ...
... death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership . In Uncle Tom's Cabin , the emotional suffering of grieving ...
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... death in war . Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield death posed to memorial conventions , and signals the emergence of new ways of con- ceptualizing the dead . In Specimen Days , he tries to find a way to ...
... death in war . Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield death posed to memorial conventions , and signals the emergence of new ways of con- ceptualizing the dead . In Specimen Days , he tries to find a way to ...
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... death on the same scaffold . While the bodies of Edwin Coppoc and John Cook were , like Brown's , turned over to their families , Governor Wise refused to relinquish the bodies of the two black raiders , John Copeland and Shields Green ...
... death on the same scaffold . While the bodies of Edwin Coppoc and John Cook were , like Brown's , turned over to their families , Governor Wise refused to relinquish the bodies of the two black raiders , John Copeland and Shields Green ...
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... death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person . Thus the corpse , and the ...
... death ritual rested on the assumption that interi- ority was simply embodied ; commemorative objects had meaning in the eyes of survivors because they were infused by the aura of a particular dead person . Thus the corpse , and the ...
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... death , was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that ...
... death , was readily accommodated by a nationalist narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that ...
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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