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Informationen zum Autor David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America. Klappentext In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in YucatÁn imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of YucatÁn, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of racial capitalism. By juxtaposing two unheralded and seemingly unrelated Atlantic histories, Kazanjian finds remarkably fresh, nuanced, and worldly conceptions of freedom thriving amidst the archived everyday. The Brink of Freedom’s speculative, quotidian globalities ultimately ask us to improvise radical ways of living in the world. Zusammenfassung In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities 1 Part I. Liberia: Epistolary Encounters Prelude 35 1. It All Most Cost Us Death Seeking Life: Recursive Returns and Unsettled Nativities 53 2. Suffering Gain and It Remain: The Speculative Freedom of Early Liberia 91 Part II. Yucatán: Una Guerra Escrita Prelude 133 3. En Sus Futuros Destinos: Casta Capitalism 155 4. Por Eso Peleamos: Recasting Libertad 191 Coda: Archives for the Future 227 Acknowledgments 239 Notes 243 Bibliography 285 Index 315...
