Death and the American South (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Friend, Craig Thompson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 century to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against emancipation and civil rights to recent canny efforts to commemorate - and capitalize on - the region's deadly past. Some authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments: killing and dying, grieving and remembering, and believing and despairing. Others uncover the intentional efforts of Southerners to publicly commemorate their losses through death rituals and memorialization campaigns. Together, these poignantly told Southern stories reveal profound truths about the past of a region marked by death and unable, perhaps unwilling, to escape the ghosts of its history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316028315
• Artikelnr.: 49268245

Inhaltsangabe

Death and the American South: an introduction Craig Thompson Friend and
Lorri Glover; 1. Mutilated bodies, living specters: scalpings and
beheadings in the early South Craig Thompson Friend; 2. The usable death:
evangelicals, Anglicans, and the politics of dying in the late colonial low
country Peter N. Moore; 3. When 'history becomes fable instead of fact':
the deaths and resurrections of Virginia's leading revolutionaries Lorri
Glover; 4. American mourning: catastrophe, public grief, and the making of
civic identity in the early national South Jewel L. Spangler; 5. To claim
one's own: death and the body in the daily politics of antebellum slavery
Jamie Warren; 6. Nativists and strangers: yellow fever and immigrant
mortality in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina Jeff Strickland; 7.
'Cumberer of the earth': suffering and suicide among the faithful in the
Civil War South Diane Miller Sommerville; 8. The 'translation' of Lundy
Harris: interpreting death out of the confusion of sexuality, violence, and
religion in the New South Donald G. Mathews; 9. 'He's only away':
condolence literature and the emergence of a modern South Kristine M.
McCusker; 10. 'A monument to Judge Lynch': racial violence, symbolic death,
and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi Jason Morgan Ward; 11.
Reframing the Indian dead: removal-era Cherokee graves and the changing
landscape of Southern memory Andrew Denson.