The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; 165;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 17 December 2012
- ISBN 9781107028067
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages214 pages
- Size 235x160x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.
MoreLong description:
During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a 'state of exception' in American jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the Western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'an empire of letters'; 1. 'Like a disembodied shade': popular romances and the American imperial state; 2. Styling territory: Mark Twain and the 'stupendous joke' of imperial sovereignty; 3. 'Twisted from the ordinary': naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion; 4. Acts of lawless discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans; 5. Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South; Epilogue; Bibliography.
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