Castronovo / Pease Necro Citizenship

Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8014-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castronovo, Russ

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Democray’s Graveyard

1. Political Necrophilia

Freedom and the Longing for Dead Citizenship

2. “The Slavery of Man to Himself”

White Male Sexuality, Self-Reliance, and Bondage

3. “That Half-Living Corpse”

Female Mediums, Séances, and the Occult Public Sphere

4. The “Black Arts” of Citizenship

Africanist Origins of White Interiority

5. De-Naturalizing Citizenship

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Russ Castronovo is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. He is the author of Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.