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Author Schillings, Sonja, author

Title Enemies of all humankind : fictions of legitimate violence / Sonja Schillings
Published Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2016

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Series Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
Contents Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? the later Cold War years; Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and the War on Terror -- Conclusion
Summary "Provides a narrative basis for legitimating violence against 'enemies of civilization' "-- Provided by the publisher
Analysis Enemy of mankind
Enemies of civilization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject American fiction -- History and criticism
Violence in literature.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Pirates in literature.
Violence -- Philosophy
Civilization -- Philosophy -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Civilization -- Philosophy
English literature
Pirates in literature
Violence in literature
Violence -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016038426
ISBN 1512600172
1512600156
9781512600155
1512600164
9781512600162
9781512600759
151260075X
9781512600179
Other Titles Violence in Anglo-American modernity