Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / Russ Castronovo.

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.

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Main Author: Castronovo, Russ, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:New Americanists.
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