02615nam 2200649 a 450 991046436360332120200520144314.00-8232-4098-30-8232-4821-6(CKB)3450000000003231(EBL)3239725(SSID)ssj0000550849(PQKBManifestationID)11941056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550849(PQKBWorkID)10509570(PQKB)10292630(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035330(MiAaPQ)EBC3239725(OCoLC)801846581(MdBmJHUP)muse15046(Au-PeEL)EBL3239725(CaPaEBR)ebr10586783(OCoLC)923763870(EXLCZ)99345000000000323120090706d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn lingering and being last[electronic resource] race and sovereignty in the New World /Jonathan Elmer1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20081 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2940-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.American literatureHistory and criticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticismSovereignty in literatureRace in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Sovereignty in literature.Race in literature.810.9/355Elmer Jonathan1961-886419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464363603321On lingering and being last1979500UNINA