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Titre(s) : Death and the American South [Texte imprimé] / edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover
Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies on the American South
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies on the American South
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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. Craig Thompson Friend is Professor of History
and Director of Public History at North Carolina State University. Lorri Glover is
the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the department of history at St. Louis University"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Friend, Craig Thompson (1961-....). Éditeur scientifique
Glover, Lorri (1967-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Mort -- Société -- États-Unis (sud) -- 1800-....
Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- États-Unis (sud) -- 1800-....
Deuil -- États-Unis (sud) -- 1800-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.909 73 (23e éd.) = Mort (sociologie) - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107084209. - ISBN 1107084202. - ISBN 9781316028797 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45695546z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45695546
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
