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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castronovo, Russ, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
Death > Political aspects > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States > History.
Democracy > United States > History.
Passivity (Psychology) > United States > History.
Apathy > United States > History.
Apathy > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Apathy
Citizenship
Death > Political aspects
Democracy
Passivity (Psychology)
Apathie
Tod
Politische Identität
Nationalbewusstsein
Mort > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Citoyenneté > États-Unis > Histoire.
Démocratie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Passivité (psychologie) > États-Unis > Histoire.
citoyenneté > culture > mort > Etats-Unis > 19e s.
identité culturelle > mort > société (milieu humain) > Etats-Unis > 19e s.
corps humain > mort > sexualité > Etats-Unis > 19e s.
United States
USA
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Democracy's graveyard: Ideology and Eternity / Bodies Politic / A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity
  • 1 Political Necrophilia. Freedom and the longing for dead citizenship. Thinking Against Freedom / Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print / Give Me Liberty and Death / Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia / Strategies of Antifreedom / Blacks and Jews
  • 2 "The Slavery of Man to Himself": White male sexuality, self-reliance, and bondage. The Black Man / Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance? / Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism / "I Recommended Castration": Managing Sexual Slaves / The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice / Taking Political Pleasure in White Men / Postscript
  • 3 "That Half-Living Corpse": Female mediums, séances, and the occult public sphere. Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas / Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics / Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale / The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship / A Brief History of Girlhood / Veiled Labor / Zenobia's Corpse / Epitaph
  • 4 The "Black Arts" of Citizenship: Africanist origins of white interiority. What about the Materiality of the Body? / Black Origins of the White Unconscious / Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance / Ghostwriting / Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious / Incidents in the (After)life of a Slave Girl / Histories of the Not There / Saying "Nothing" about History
  • 5 De-Naturalizing Citizenship: Geographies Other Than the National / The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity / "A French Grammar" and the Remainders of Diaspora / Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy / Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court / Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship / The Promise of the Counterpublic and the Return of Hierarchy / Miscegenation without Sex.

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