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Going Underground - Lara Langer Cohen

Going Underground

Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1684-7 (ISBN)
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Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of the underground in nineteenth-century US literature, showing how these formations of the underground can inspire new forms of political resistance.
First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground’s figurative sense first took shape through the associations of literal subterranean spaces with racialized Blackness, she examines a vibrant world of nineteenth-century US subterranean literature that includes Black radical manifestos, anarchist periodicals, sensationalist exposés of the urban underworld, manuals for sex magic, and the initiation rites of secret societies. Cohen finds that the undergrounds in this literature offer sites of political possibility that exceed the familiar framework of resistance, suggesting that nineteenth-century undergrounds can inspire new modes of world-making and world-breaking for a time when this world feels increasingly untenable.

Lara Langer Cohen is Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College, author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture, and coeditor of Early African American Print Culture.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century  1
1. The “Blackness of Darkness” in Mammoth Cave  25
2. Early Black Radical Undergrounds  46
3. The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds  74
4. The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability  104
5. “To Drop beneath the Floors of the Outer World”: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Undergrounds  133
6. Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground  166
Epilogue: Staying Underground  198
Notes  205
Bibliography  245
Index  267

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Zusatzinfo 8 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-1684-1 / 1478016841
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1684-7 / 9781478016847
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