Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings
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| Autore: |
Schillings Sonja
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| Titolo: |
Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings
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| Pubblicazione: | Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization - Philosophy - History |
| Violence - Philosophy | |
| Pirates in literature | |
| English literature - History and criticism | |
| Violence in literature | |
| American fiction - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Enemies of civilization |
| Enemy of mankind | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? the later Cold War years; Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and the War on Terror -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Provides a narrative basis for legitimating violence against 'enemies of civilization' " -- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Enemies of all humankind |
| ISBN: | 9781512600179 |
| 9781512600155 | |
| 9781512600162 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910166648303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Re-Mapping the Transnational: a Dartmouth Series in American Studies