Necro Citizenship
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Necro Citizenship
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Author : Russ Castronovo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
Necro Citizenship written by Russ Castronovo and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Political Science categories.
DIVArgues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens./div
Necro Citizenship
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Author : Russ Castronovo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
Necro Citizenship written by Russ Castronovo and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Political Science categories.
In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over embodiment, spiritual conditions over material ones, amnesia over history, and passivity over engagement. Moving from medical engravings, séances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, Necro Citizenship explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. “Necro ideology,” he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think about slavery, economic powerlessness, or social injustice as eternal questions, beyond the scope of politics or critique. By obsessing on sleepwalkers, drowned women, and other corpses, necro ideology fostered a collective demand for an abstract even antidemocratic sense of freedom. Examining issues involving the occult, white sexuality, ghosts, and suicide in conjunction with readings of Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frances Harper, Necro Citizenship successfully demonstrates why Patrick Henry's “give me liberty or give me death” has resonated so strongly in the American imagination.
The Practice Of Citizenship
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Author : Derrick R. Spires
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-08
The Practice Of Citizenship written by Derrick R. Spires and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both canonical and lesser-known authors, Derrick R. Spires demonstrates how black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship.
Transnational Encounters
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Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Transnational Encounters written by Alejandro L. Madrid and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Music categories.
Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norte?a, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
Citizenship Law And Literature
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Author : Caroline Koegler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-10-25
Citizenship Law And Literature written by Caroline Koegler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-25 with Law categories.
This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.
The Power Of The Story
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Author : Vincent Joos
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-04-14
The Power Of The Story written by Vincent Joos and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Disability The Body And Radical Intellectuals In The Literature Of The Civil War And Reconstruction
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Author : Sarah E. Chinn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
Disability The Body And Radical Intellectuals In The Literature Of The Civil War And Reconstruction written by Sarah E. Chinn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Transcendental Resistance
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Author : Johannes Voelz
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2010
Transcendental Resistance written by Johannes Voelz and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists
Loyal Subjects
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Author : Elizabeth Duquette
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2010
Loyal Subjects written by Elizabeth Duquette and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy.
History Abolition And The Ever Present Now In Antebellum American Writing
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Author : Jeffrey Insko
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in American Lit
Release Date : 2019-02-13
History Abolition And The Ever Present Now In Antebellum American Writing written by Jeffrey Insko and has been published by Oxford Studies in American Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary historysome, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement. Focusing on nineteenth-century writers who were impatient for social change, like those advocating for the immediate emancipation of slaves, as opposed to those planning for a gradual end to slavery, the book recovers some of the political force of romanticism. Through close readings of texts by Washington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither a reflection of present interests nor as an irretrievably distant 'other', but as a complex and open-ended interaction between the two. In place of a fixed and linear past, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing present. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls 'romantic presentism' insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience-and hence of ethics and democratic possibility.