Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings.
"Provides a narrative basis for legitimating violence against 'enemies of civilization' " --
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Place / Publishing House: | Hanover, N.H. : : Dartmouth College Press,, 2016. ©2016. |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Re-Mapping the Transnational: a Dartmouth Series in American Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages). |
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490 | 0 | |a Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies | |
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? the later Cold War years; Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and the War on Terror -- Conclusion. | |
520 | |a "Provides a narrative basis for legitimating violence against 'enemies of civilization' " -- |c Provided by the publisher | ||
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