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The poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910 /
During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have beco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
165. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: 'an empire of letters'
- 'Like a disembodied shade': popular romances and the American imperial state
- Styling territory: Mark Twain and the 'stupendous joke' of imperial sovereignty
- 'Twisted from the ordinary': naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion
- Acts of lawless discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans
- Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South.