On Lingering and Being Last : : Race and Sovereignty in the New World / / Jonathan Elmer.
What are we talking about when we talk about sovereignty? Is it about formal legitimacy or practical authority? Does it require the ability to control the flow of people or goods across a border; is it primarily a principle of international recognition; or does its essence lie in the power to regula...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowlegments
- Introduction
- 1. On Lingering and Being Last: Aphra Behn and the Deterritorialized Sovereign
- 2. The Future Perfect King: Olaudah Equiano and the Poetics of Experience
- 3. Was Billy Black? Herman Melville and the Captive King
- 4. Jefferson’s Convulsions: Archiving Logan
- 5. Sovereignty, Race, and Melancholy in the Transatlantic Romantic Novel
- 6. Treaties, Trauma, Trees: The Dream of Hadwin
- Notes
- Index