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Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States /
Argues 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Democracy's graveyard: Ideology and Eternity / Bodies Politic / A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity
- 1 Political Necrophilia. Freedom and the longing for dead citizenship. Thinking Against Freedom / Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print / Give Me Liberty and Death / Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia / Strategies of Antifreedom / Blacks and Jews
- 2 "The Slavery of Man to Himself": White male sexuality, self-reliance, and bondage. The Black Man / Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance? / Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism / "I Recommended Castration": Managing Sexual Slaves / The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice / Taking Political Pleasure in White Men / Postscript
- 3 "That Half-Living Corpse": Female mediums, séances, and the occult public sphere. Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas / Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics / Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale / The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship / A Brief History of Girlhood / Veiled Labor / Zenobia's Corpse / Epitaph
- 4 The "Black Arts" of Citizenship: Africanist origins of white interiority. What about the Materiality of the Body? / Black Origins of the White Unconscious / Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance / Ghostwriting / Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious / Incidents in the (After)life of a Slave Girl / Histories of the Not There / Saying "Nothing" about History
- 5 De-Naturalizing Citizenship: Geographies Other Than the National / The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity / "A French Grammar" and the Remainders of Diaspora / Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy / Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court / Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship / The Promise of the Counterpublic and the Return of Hierarchy / Miscegenation without Sex.