John Brown still lives!
Subtitle: America's long reckoning with violence, equality, and change
By: R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780807835012
Subjects: In literature; Equality; Abolitionists; Violence; Influence; Biography; History
Description: "Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America; title: Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown; title: The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero; title: Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown; title: A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown; title: Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP; title: The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body; title: The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South; title: Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown; title: Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history; title: Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.