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The Brink of Freedom
Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
"Terrific. . . . Innovative."
-- Sean X. Goudie American Literary History
"Kazanjian has constructed an extensively well-researched and theoretically complex study that develops a new approach to comparative scholarship, highlights new paths to archival research, and suggests new reading strategies that help us examine how non-European actors imagined a future defined by freedom, one of the principal tenets of modernity and of nineteenth-century liberalism."
-- Ty West The Latin Americanist
“The Brink of Freedom is an innovative study that serves as a model for interdisciplinary research.”
-- Christina C. Davidson Hispanic American Historical Review
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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INTRODUCTION Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities
1 - Part I · Liberia
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Prelude
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1 “It All Most Cost Us Death Seeking Life”
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2 “Suffering Gain and It Remain”
91 - Part II · Yucatán
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3 “En Sus Futuros Destinos”
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4 “Por Eso Peleamos”
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CODA: Archives for the Future
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
315
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May 19, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780822374107
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
336
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16 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822374107
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Professional and scholarly;
