On lingering and being last [[electronic resource] ] : race and sovereignty in the New World / / Jonathan Elmer
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Elmer Jonathan <1961->
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| Titolo: |
On lingering and being last [[electronic resource] ] : race and sovereignty in the New World / / Jonathan Elmer
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| English literature - History and criticism | |
| Sovereignty in literature | |
| Race in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On lingering and being last |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-4098-3 |
| 0-8232-4821-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789321303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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