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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464363603321

Autore

Elmer Jonathan <1961->

Titolo

On lingering and being last [[electronic resource] ] : race and sovereignty in the New World / / Jonathan Elmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8232-4098-3

0-8232-4821-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

English literature - History and criticism

Sovereignty in literature

Race in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On lingering and being last : Aphra Behn and the deterritorialized sovereign -- The future perfect king : Olaudah Equiano and the poetics of experience -- Was Billy black? Herman Melville and the captive king -- Jefferson's convulsions : archiving Logan -- Sovereignty, race, and melancholy in the transatlantic romantic novel -- Treaties, trauma, trees : the dream of Hadwin.

Sommario/riassunto

In 'On Lingering and Being Last', Jonathan Elmer argues that the logic of sovereignty that emerged in early modern Europe and that limits our thinking today must be understood as a fundamentally racialized logic, first visible in the New World.