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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings
| Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings |
| Autore | Schillings Sonja |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
| Collana | Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
9781512600179
9781512600155 9781512600162 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910166648303321 |
Schillings Sonja
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| Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Enemies of All Humankind : : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings
| Enemies of All Humankind : : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings |
| Autore | Schillings Sonja |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover, NH, USA, : Dartmouth College Press, 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Collana | Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes
Literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
9781512600179
1512600172 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910917297203321 |
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Schillings Sonja
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| Hanover, NH, USA, : Dartmouth College Press, 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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