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Painting the Unites States' Civil war: Or Creating a Brotherly War

2015

This article seeks to illustrate Benedict Anderson’s theory of the “Reassurance of Fratricide” and “the act of remembering/forgetting” through depictions of the Civil War in US fine arts. This is mostly done through the Smithsonian art data base and the paintings referenced under the label Civil War, spanning from the 1860s to the 1890s. This paper first analyzes how these paintings were used to depict the Confederate soldier’s otherness as typically American and thus helped with the post-war reintegration of the Confederacy. This study then examines how in certain paintings the war was brought inside the realm of domesticity and family, which reinforced the idea of a fratricide and a famil…

Benedict Anderson[ SHS ] Humanities and Social SciencesCivil Warfine artsnationalism[SHS] Humanities and Social SciencesfratricideComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
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“A Partial ‘Reassurance of Fratricide’: Redefining National Unity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

2016

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[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureAdventures of Huckleberry Finn[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureNational UnityMark TwainBenedicte Anderson[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSReassurance of Fratricide
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