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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 |
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