Description: Further DetailsTitle: Necro CitizenshipCondition: NewSubtitle: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesISBN-10: 0822327724EAN: 9780822327721ISBN: 9780822327721Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/27/2001Description: In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over embodiment, spiritual conditions over material ones, amnesia over history, and passivity over engagement.Moving from medical engravings, séances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, Necro Citizenship explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. “Necro ideology,” he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think about slavery, economic powerlessness, or social injustice as eternal questions, beyond the scope of politics or critique. By obsessing on sleepwalkers, drowned women, and other corpses, necro ideology fostered a collective demand for an abstract even antidemocratic sense of freedom. Examining issues involving the occult, white sexuality, ghosts, and suicide in conjunction with readings of Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frances Harper, Necro Citizenship successfully demonstrates why Patrick Henry's “give me liberty or give me death” has resonated so strongly in the American imagination.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Russ CastronovoGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: New AmericanistsItem Weight: 744gTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Necro Citizenship
Title: Necro Citizenship
Subtitle: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century
ISBN-10: 0822327724
EAN: 9780822327721
ISBN: 9780822327721
Release Date: 09/27/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: New Americanists
Book Title: Necro Citizenship : Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Death & Dying, History & Theory, Civics & Citizenship, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2001
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 26.3 Oz
Author: Russ Castronovo
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: New Americanists Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
