Death and the American South /

"This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth centu...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Friend, Craig Thompson (المحرر), Glover, Lorri, 1967- (المحرر)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
سلاسل:Cambridge studies on the American South.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=856044
جدول المحتويات:
  • Death and the American South : an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover
  • Mutilated bodies, living specters : scalpings and beheadings in the early South / Craig Thompson Friend
  • The usable death : evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low country / Peter N. Moore
  • When 'history becomes fable instead of fact' : the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries / Lorri Glover
  • American mourning : catastrophe, public grief, and the making of civic identity in the early national South / Jewel L. Spangler
  • To claim one's own : death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery / Jamie Warren
  • Nativists and strangers : yellow fever and immigrant mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina / Jeff Strickland
  • 'Cumberer of the earth' : suffering and suicide among the faithful in the Civil War South / Diane Miller Sommerville
  • The 'translation' of Lundy Harris : interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and religion in the New South / Donald G. Mathews
  • 'He's only away' : condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South / Kristine M. McCusker
  • 'A monument to Judge Lynch' : racial violence, symbolic death, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi / Jason Morgan Ward
  • Reframing the Indian dead : removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing landscape of Southern memory / Andrew Denson.

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