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Necro Citizenship
Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Russ Castronovo
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.
Author / Editor information
Russ Castronovo is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. He is the author of Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.
Reviews
“Liberty and death? Citizenship and necrophilia? The conjunction ‘and’ is shocking and is meant to shock. Russ Castronovo sees American political life as the burial ground of many corpses, literal as well as metaphoric. With ruthless determination he digs these up, examines their tell-tale remains, and, in the process, offers a trenchant critique of some consequences of American democracy.”—Wai Chee Dimock, author of Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
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eBook published on:
September 27, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380146
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
368
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17 illustrations
