At the height of the American Civil War in 1863 the Union instated the first ever federal draft. This book examines the draft as a cultural formation and develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives at this time.
At the height of the American Civil War in 1863 the Union instated the first ever federal draft. This book examines the draft as a cultural formation and develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives at this time.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Colleen Glenney Boggs is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she is the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge, 2007). Her work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and J19, among others. She edited the volume MLA Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2016), and co-edits the book series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. She has served on the PMLA Editorial Board and as Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation.
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* Introduction * 1: Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery * 2: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation * 3: Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution * 4: The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers * Conclusion
* Introduction * 1: Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery * 2: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation * 3: Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution * 4: The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers * Conclusion
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