Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature / / by Rick Rodriguez



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Rodriguez Rick Visualizza persona
Titolo: Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature / / by Rick Rodriguez Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019
Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 135 pages)
Disciplina: 809
900
Soggetto topico: 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
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-34013-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910484941003321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination