Xenocitizens (eBook)

Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America

Jason Berger (Autor)

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2020
304 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8776-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.

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In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal-humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms "e;xeno,"e; which connotes alien or stranger, and "e;citizen,"e; which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century-pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.

Autor

Jason Berger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America (2012).

Inhalt

Introduction: Xenocitizens | 1

Part I: Illiberal Ontologies

1. Emerson’s Operative Mood | 33

2. Agitating Margaret Fuller | 58

Part II: Illiberal Ecologies

3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables | 101

4. Unadjusted Emancipations | 153

Epilogue: Care, There and Now | 201

Notes | 205

Index | 279

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2020
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: antebellum U.S. • Ecology • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Henry David Thoreau • Liberalism • Margaret Fuller • Martin Delany • Neoliberalism • Nineteenth-Century American Literature • Ontology • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Wells Brown
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-8776-9 / 0823287769
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8776-5 / 9780823287765