Direct Democracy : Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas /

"Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a form of organization fit for worker cooperatives or political movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective power, base...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Henkel, Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt > 1819-1892
Turner, Nat > 1800-1831
Traven, B. > 1882-1969
Chauvet, Marie > 1916-1973
Carlyle, Thomas > 1795-1881
Compagnie Rêvolution
Philosophie
Literatur
Haitianische Revolution > Motiv
Direkte Demokratie
Aufstand
Social movements.
Literature.
Democracy in literature.
Democracy and the arts.
Democracy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Mouvements sociaux > Amerique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Democratie et arts > Amerique.
Social movements > America > History > 19th century.
Democracy and the arts > America.
Democracy > America.
USA
America.
Amerique > Litteratures > Histoire et critique.
America > Literatures > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "There are 2,000 leaders" : the swarm metaphor and a logic of collective action in C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins
  • Carlyle, Whitman, Parsons : three perspectives on direct democracy
  • Nearly one hundred Nat Turners : collective power in the 1831 Southampton Slave Rebellion
  • The emergence of the swarm in B. Traven's Mahogany novels
  • Repression and cooperation in Marie Vieux Chauvet's Love.

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