Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- ISBN-10
- 0822327724
- ISBN-13
- 9780822327721
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 351
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-09-27
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Authors
- Russ Castronovo, Dorothy Draheim Professor of English Russ Castronovo
Description
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
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2001-09-27
- 369 pages
- Ebook
- Duke University Press
Similar books
-
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
By Derrick R. SpiresThe Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship.
-
Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Alejandro L. MadridFurthermore, 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
By Klaus Stierstorfer, Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig... Citizen: An American Lyric (Minneapolis: Graywolf P, 2014), whose cover features a black hood reminiscent of the visual debate around Trayvon Martin's death; and Russ Castronovo, Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public ...
-
The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
By Martin Munro, Vincent Joos, John Ribó... necro- capitalism, and even as ostensible citizens (an empty cipher to be sure), Puerto Ricans have been repeatedly ... citizenship in Puerto Rico” as “a citizenship associated with death,” “devoid of political agency,” and without ...
-
Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge
By Johannes Voelz... Democracy, Aesthetics, Individualism: Emerson as Public Intellectual.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 30, nos. 1–2 (Spring ... Materializing Democracy, 218–47. Newfield, Christopher. “Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency.” In ...
-
History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing
By Jeffrey Insko... Eds. Presentist Shakespeares (London: Routledge, 2007); Gajowski, Evelyn, Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); O'Rourke, James, Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings ...
-
Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
By Harriett D. Romo, William A. DupontIn Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, editors Harriett Romo and William Dupont focus specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders ...
-
Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China
By Linh D. VuIn Governing the Dead, Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twentieth century to become ...
-
Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-century America
By Elizabeth Duquette... pretenses. If I lack certainty about your trustworthiness, swearing an oath, which only works if I find you trustworthy, will not give me the certainty I seek. The problematic here articulated—that oaths fail to es- tablish the security ...
-
Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
By Jennifer GreimanIn Democracy's Spectacle, Jennifer Greiman looks to an earlier moment in the history of American democracy's vexed interpretation of sovereignty to argue that such questions about the popularization of sovereign power shaped debates about ...