Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature [electronic resource] / by Rick Rodriguez.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9783030340131
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/6016
Yazar
Rodriguez, Rick.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2019.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VIII, 135 p. online resource.
Dizi
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination, 2946-4080
İçindekiler Notu
Chapter 1: Immunity’s Sovereignty -- Chapter 2: The Haitian Exception -- Chapter 3: Algerian Captivity and State Autoimmunity -- Chapter 4: Poe and Democracy’s Biopolitical Immunity -- Chapter 5: Cuba and the Imperial Solution -- Chapter 6: Panic Room.
Özet, vb.
Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution the former colonies found themselves subject to foreign and domestic threats imperiling their independence. Wars with North African regencies, responses to the Haitian revolution, reactions to the specter and reality of slave rebellion in the antebellum South, and plans to acquire Cuba to ease tensions between the states all constituted immunizing responses that helped define the conceptual and aesthetic protocols by which the U.S. represented itself to itself and to the world’s nations as distinct, exemplary, and vulnerable. Rodriguez examines these events as expressions of an immunitary logic that was—and still is— frequently deployed to legitimate state authority. Rodriguez identifies contradictions in literary texts’ dramatizations of these transnational events and their attending threats, revealing how democracy’s exposure to its own fragility serves as rationale for immunity’s sovereignty. This book shows how early U.S. literature, often conceived as a delivery system for American exceptionalism, is in effect critical of such immunitary discourses.
Konu
Literature __ Philosophy.
Comparative literature.
Literature, Modern __ 18th century.
America __ Literatures.
Latin American literature.
America __ History.
Literary Theory.
Comparative Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Latin American/Caribbean Literature.
History of the Americas.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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