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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 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. 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
