Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / Sonja Schillings.
Material type: TextSeries: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2016Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781512600759
- Violence -- Philosophy
- Violence in literature
- Pirates in literature
- English literature
- Civilization -- Philosophy
- American fiction
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Civilisation -- Philosophie -- Histoire
- Violence -- Philosophie
- Pirates dans la litterature
- Litterature anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Violence dans la litterature
- Roman americain -- Histoire et critique
- Civilization -- Philosophy -- History
- Violence -- Philosophy
- Pirates in literature
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Violence in literature
- American fiction -- History and criticism
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.
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