Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Americanists)

by Russ Castronovo

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Publication

Duke University Press Books (2001), 368 pages

Description

Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.

Language

ISBN

0822327724 / 9780822327721

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