Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution the former colonies found themselves subject to foreign and domestic threats imperiling their independence. Wars with North African regencies, responses to the Haitian revolution, reactions to the specter and reality of slave rebellion in the antebellum South, and plans to acquire Cuba to ease tensions between the states all constituted immunizing responses that helped define the conceptual and aesthetic protocols by which the U.S. represented itself to itself and to the world's nations as distinct, exemplary, and vulnerable. Rodriguez examines these events as expressions of an immunitary logic that was-and still is- frequently deployed to legitimate state authority. Rodriguez identifies contradictions in literary texts' dramatizations of these transnational events and their attending threats, revealing how democracy's exposure to its own fragility serves as rationale for immunity's sovereignty. This book shows how early U.S. literature, often conceived as a delivery system for American exceptionalism, is in effect critical of such immunitary discourses.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2019
Authors:	Rick Rodriguez
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	135
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-034015-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-034015-5
Barcode:	9783030340155

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