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    Trethewey's Native Guard: Recovered History

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    An analysis of how Natasha Trethewey resurrects the forgotten Black Union soldiers of the Native Guard through poetry, creating literary monuments where physical ones were denied.

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    That erasure is what makes Trethewey's work so important. She's creating a monument in verse where there wasn't one in stone.

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    Points clés

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    Erased History in Verse

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    0:42
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    1:09
    1:25
    2

    The Architecture of Memory

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    3

    Crosshatched Narratives

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    5:12
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    6:23
    6:36
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    4

    Monuments and Anti-Monuments

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    The Weight of Witness

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    10:31
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    11:57
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    The Persistence of the Past

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    12:43
    12:59
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    14:19
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    Forms of Resistance

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    16:23
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    8

    Truth-Telling and Reconciliation

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    18:43
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    A Living Monument

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