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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Table of Contents:
- 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.