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On lingering and being last : race and sovereignty in the New World / Jonathan Elmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elmer, Jonathan, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Sovereignty in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 'On Lingering and Being Last', Jonathan Elmer argues that the logic of sovereignty that emerged in early modern Europe and that limits our thinking today must be understood as a fundamentally racialized logic, first visible in the New World.
- Contents:
- On lingering and being last : Aphra Behn and the deterritorialized sovereign
- The future perfect king : Olaudah Equiano and the poetics of experience
- Was Billy black? Herman Melville and the captive king
- Jefferson's convulsions : archiving Logan
- Sovereignty, race, and melancholy in the transatlantic romantic novel
- Treaties, trauma, trees : the dream of Hadwin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4098-3
- 0-8232-4821-6
- OCLC:
- 801846581
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