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The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture - Hardcover

Johnson, Allison M.

 
9780807170373: The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807170372 ISBN 13: 9780807170373
Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR, 2019

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In The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture, Allison M. Johnson considers the ubiquitous images of bodies—white and black, male and female, soldier and civilian—that appear throughout newspapers, lithographs, poems, and other texts circulated during and in the decades immediately following the Civil War. Rather than dwelling on the work of well-known authors, The Scars We Carve uncovers a powerful archive of Civil War–era print culture in which the individual body and its component parts, marked by violence or imbued with rhetorical power, testify to the horrors of war and the lasting impact of the internecine conflict.

The Civil War brought about vast changes to the nation’s political, social, racial, and gender identities, and Johnson argues that print culture conveyed these changes to readers through depictions of nonnormative bodies. She focuses on images portrayed in the pages of newspapers and journals, in the left-handed writing of recent amputees who participated in penmanship contests, and in the accounts of anonymous poets and storytellers. Johnson reveals how allegories of the feminine body as a representation of liberty and the nation carved out a place for women in public and political realms, while depictions of slaves and black soldiers justified black manhood and citizenship in the midst of sectional crisis.

By highlighting the extent to which the violence of the conflict marked the physical experience of American citizens, as well as the geographic and symbolic bodies of the republic, The Scars We Carve diverges from narratives of the Civil War that stress ideological abstraction, showing instead that the era’s print culture contains a literary and visual record of the war that is embodied and individualized.

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Allison M. Johnson is assistant professor of American literature at San Jose State University.

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"Drawing on letters, periodical literature, poetry, memoirs, and visual materials, The Scars We Carve shows how pervasive the body was, in word and image, in Americans' understanding of the Civil War as it unfolded. Whether in her attention to competing northern and southern depictions of women as carriers of familial and regional strength or in her focus on figures of heroic and maimed African American soldiers, which stand in sharp counterpoint to archetypal images of the scarred body of the slave, Johnson dramatizes the body as a medium of national tragedy reaching beyond sectionalism and race even as it was driven by both. Her study makes a truly original contribution to studies of the Civil War and antebellum American culture."--Eric Sundquist, author of To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

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Drawing on letters, periodical literature, poetry, memoirs, and visual materials, The Scars We Carve shows how pervasive the body was, in word and image, in Americans understanding of the Civil War as it unfolded. Whether in her attention to competing northern and southern depictions of women as carriers of familial and regional strength or in her focus on figures of heroic and maimed African American soldiers, which stand in sharp counterpoint to archetypal images of the scarred body of the slave, Johnson dramatizes the body as a medium of national tragedy reaching beyond sectionalism and race even as it was driven by both. Her study makes a truly original contribution to studies of the Civil War and antebellum American culture. Eric Sundquist, author of To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

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Verlag
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807170372
ISBN 13 
9780807170373
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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