Facing the other ethical disruption and the American mind /

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Bolton, Linda, 1955-
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
Schriftenreihe:Horizons in theory and American culture.
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human"
  • Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer
  • In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic
  • Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise
  • Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca
  • In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.