Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo
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Castronovo Russ <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.9/0973 |
| 306.90973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Death - Political aspects - United States - History |
| Citizenship - United States - History | |
| Democracy - United States - History | |
| Passivity (Psychology) - United States - History | |
| Apathy - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-336) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Democracy's graveyard: Ideology and Eternity / Bodies Politic / A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity -- 1 Political Necrophilia. Freedom and the longing for dead citizenship. Thinking Against Freedom / Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print / Give Me Liberty and Death / Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia / Strategies of Antifreedom / Blacks and Jews -- 2 "The Slavery of Man to Himself": White male sexuality, self-reliance, and bondage. The Black Man / Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance? / Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism / "I Recommended Castration": Managing Sexual Slaves / The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice / Taking Political Pleasure in White Men / Postscript -- 3 "That Half-Living Corpse": Female mediums, seances, and the occult public sphere. Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas / Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics / Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale / The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship / A Brief History of Girlhood / Veiled Labor / Zenobia's Corpse / Epitaph -- 4 The "Black Arts" of Citizenship: Africanist origins of white interiority. What about the Materiality of the Body? / Black Origins of the White Unconscious / Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance / Ghostwriting / Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious / Incidents in the (After)life of a Slave Girl / Histories of the Not There / Saying "Nothing" about History -- 5 De-Naturalizing Citizenship: Geographies Other Than the National / The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity / "A French Grammar" and the Remainders of Diaspora / Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy / Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court / Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship / The Promise of the Counterpublic and the Return of Hierarchy / Miscegenation without Sex. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Necro citizenship |
| ISBN: | 1-283-06173-2 |
| 9786613061737 | |
| 0-8223-8014-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821127003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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