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Rethinking Manifest Destiny and the cultures of early U.S. empire.

机译：重新思考清单命运和美国早期帝国的文化。

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My dissertation, Rethinking Manifest Destiny, argues that the invention of modern democracy in the US brings into being coexisting discursive practices of empire- and nation-building designed to manage the conflictual nature of democracy's radical potential. The result is a crisis in sovereignty that this project traces episodically through the literature written between the nation's founding and the Civil War. Beginning with an analysis of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , I show how the isolationist fantasy of the yeoman farmer tending his own land is inherently troubled by plans for territorial and commercial expansion. I then examine the conflicts resulting from trying to manage the uneasy convergence of foreign and domestic spheres in narratives by Royall Tyler and Susana Rowson about US subjects held captive in Algiers, as well as in stories about Americans caught in the midst of Haiti's revolution. Haiti and Algiers figure in the literature of the early Republic as racialized reflexive models of the US's political project: Haiti as the obverse of popular democracy and Algiers as the return of absolute sovereignty. These "foreign" sites, I argue, give fictive form to what some in the US experienced as the loss of democracy's constituent power through the centralization of sovereign authority. Having identified the process through which domestic conflict is exteriorized, I shift the focus closer to home, to the work of Southern writers Edgar Allan Poe and Lucy Pickens, both of whom saw in Jacksonian democracy the limitations of majority rule. The sectional rift that eventually leads to civil strife by mid-century is mediated in debates about the acquisition of Cuba, as either part of the Union or as the headquarters for a Southern Confederacy. As I show throughout the project, that sense of loss is displaced to "foreign" or "alien" sites of unresolved conflict, not as a sign of capitulation but often as an opportunity for democratic potential.
机译：我的论文《重新思考清单的命运》认为，美国现代民主的发明与旨在建立民主激进势力的冲突性质的帝国主义和国家建设的话语实践并存。结果是主权危机，该项目通过国家建国和内战之间撰写的文学作品来概括地描写。首先从托马斯·杰斐逊（Thomas Jefferson）关于弗吉尼亚州的注释的分析开始，我展示了如何由约旦农民经营自己的土地的孤立主义幻想固有地受到领土和商业扩张计划的困扰。然后，我研究了由Royall Tyler和Susana Rowson讲述的关于美国被阿尔及尔俘虏的话题以及在海地革命中被捕的美国人的故事中试图解决国内外矛盾的冲突所引起的冲突。海地和阿尔及尔在民国初年的文学作品中将其视为美国政治计划的种族化反身榜样：海地是大众民主的反面，阿尔及尔是绝对主权的回归。我认为，这些“外国”场所为美国某些人通过主权权威集中化而丧失了民主制宪法权力提供了一种虚构的形式。在确定了导致家庭冲突外部化的过程之后，我将焦点转移到了国内作家埃德加·艾伦·坡和露西·皮肯斯的工作上，他们在杰克逊民主制中都看到了多数制的局限性。最终导致本世纪中叶内乱的断层裂痕在关于收购古巴的辩论中得到了调解，古巴是作为联盟的一部分还是作为南方邦联的总部而设的。正如我在整个项目中所展示的那样，这种失落感已转移到未解决冲突的“外国”或“外国”地点，这不是投降的标志，而是民主潜力的机会。

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  • 作者

    Rodriguez, Rick.;

  • 作者单位

    Loyola University Chicago.;

  • 授予单位 Loyola University Chicago.;
  • 学科 American Studies.;Literature American.;Political Science International Law and Relations.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2008
  • 页码 208 p.
  • 总页数 208
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 国际法;
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