Kazanjian David Kazanjian

Brink of Freedom (eBook, PDF)

Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatan imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatan, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of racial capitalism. By juxtaposing two unheralded and seemingly unrelated Atlantic histories, Kazanjian finds remarkably fresh, nuanced, and worldly conceptions of freedom thriving amidst the archived everyday. The Brink of Freedom's speculative, quotidian globalities ultimately ask us to improvise radical ways of living in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374107
• Artikelnr.: 54793299

Autorenporträt

David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities  1
Part I. Liberia: Epistolary Encounters
Prelude  35
1. It All Most Cost Us Death Seeking Life: Recursive Returns and Unsettled
Nativities  53
2. Suffering Gain and It Remain: The Speculative Freedom of Early Liberia 
91
Part II. Yucatán: Una Guerra Escrita
Prelude  133
3. En Sus Futuros Destinos: Casta Capitalism  155
4. Por Eso Peleamos: Recasting Libertad  191
Coda: Archives for the Future  227
Acknowledgments  239
Notes  243
Bibliography  285
Index  315