The poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910 /
نام عام مواد
[Book]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Andrew Hebard
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
x, 204 pages ;
ابعاد
24 cm
فروست
عنوان فروست
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
مشخصه جلد
165
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Introduction : 'An empire of letters' -- 1. 'Like a disembodied shade' : popular romances and the American imperial state -- 2. Styling territory : Mark Twain and the 'Stupendous Joke' of imperial sovereignty -- 3. 'Twisted from the ordinary' : naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion -- 4. Acts of lawless discretion : westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americas -- 5. Romance and riot : Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a "state of exception" in American jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
موضوع مستند نشده
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
موضوع مستند نشده
Law and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century
موضوع مستند نشده
Law and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
Sovereignty in literature
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
810
.
9/004
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PS217
.
S58
نشانه اثر
H43
2013
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