David Kazanjian

The Brink of Freedom

Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361510
• ISBN-10: 0822361515
• Artikelnr.: 43549461

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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