Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hebard is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Miami University of Ohio. His work on American literature, history and culture has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, the African American Review, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and New German Critique. Klappentext The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era. Zusammenfassung By exploring case studies including the regulation of overseas colonies! immigration! Native Americans and Jim Crow violence! the book traces how trends in literature helped conventionalize the use of sovereignty for regulating racialized populations! shedding new light on the legal history of race relations in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 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 Americans; 5. Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South; Epilogue; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Andrew Hebard, Andrew (Miami University) Hebard, HEBARD ANDREW
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2012
• EAN: 9781107028067
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02806-7
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies