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1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : illustrations |
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New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-336) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Death -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
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Citizenship -- United States -- History
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Democracy -- United States -- History
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Passivity (Psychology) -- United States -- History
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Apathy -- United States -- History
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Apathy -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Apathy
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Citizenship
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Death -- Political aspects
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Democracy
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Passivity (Psychology)
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Apathie
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Tod
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Politische Identität
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Mort -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Citoyenneté -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Démocratie -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Passivité (psychologie) -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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citoyenneté -- culture -- mort -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s.
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identité culturelle -- mort -- société (milieu humain) -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s.
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corps humain -- mort -- sexualité -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0822380145 |
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9780822380146 |
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1283061732 |
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9781283061735 |
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9786613061737 |
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6613061735 |
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