Format:
xii, 209 Seiten
ISBN:
9781496812254
Series Statement:
Caribbean studies series
Content:
"Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a form of organization fit for worker cooperatives or political movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective power, based on the massive slave revolt in Haiti. In the representations of slaves, women, and workers, Henkel traces a history of power through the literatures of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. Thinking about democracy as a type of power presents a challenge to common, often bureaucratic and limited interpretations of the term and opens an alternative archive, which Henkel argues includes C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas, Lucy Parsons's speeches advocating for the eight-hour workday, B. Traven's novels of the Mexican Revolution, and Marie Vieux Chauvet's novella about Haitian dictatorship. Henkel asserts that each writer recognized this power and represented its physical manifestation as a swarm. This metaphor bears a complicated history, often describing a group, a movement, or a community. Indeed it conveys multiplicity and complexity, a collective power. This metaphor's many uses illustrate Henkel's main concerns, the problems of democracy, slavery, and labor, the dynamics of racial repression and resistance, and the issues of power which run throughout the Americas."...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub single Henkel, Scott, author Direct democracy Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4968-1226-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub institutional Henkel, Scott, author Direct democracy Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4968-1227-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf single Henkel, Scott, author Direct democracy Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4968-1228-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf institutional Henkel, Scott, author Direct democracy Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4968-1229-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Literatur
;
Philosophie
;
Aufstand
;
Direkte Demokratie
;
Revolution
;
Geschichte 1675-1980
;
Haitianische Revolution
;
Carlyle, Thomas 1795-1881
;
Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
;
Turner, Nat 1800-1831
;
Traven, B. 1882-1969
;
Chauvet, Marie 1916-1973
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