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Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America

Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America

Berger, Jason

Hardcover

Literary Criticism19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0823287750
ISBN13: 9780823287758
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 2 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal-humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms xeno, which connotes alien or stranger, and citizen, which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century--pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.

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