The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (America and the Long 19th Century)

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Review "The Traumatic Colonel is a significant and unique contribution to early US studies, deftly synthesizing the recent historiography on the political economy of slavery in the construction of the US hemispheric empire. Innovative and original, White and Drexler locate Aaron Burr as the symbolic pivot for the representations that emerge politically around the repression of slavery."-Dana Nelson,author of Bad for Democracy“Not everyone will agree with Drexler and White’s take on the fantasy structure that underlies the history of the early Republic.  But readers will want to reckon with the force of their analysis that unpacks the rich tangle of national semiotics. In their reevaluation of the mythologies of the Revolution, the authors prove as every bit as vexatious as the core figure of their study, the notorious Aaron Burr.”-Russ Castronovo,author of Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America“In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White present a series of related essays on the subject of the ‘Phantasmatic Aaron Burr’ as a prophylactic for our ill-advised attraction to what the authors call ‘Founders Chic.’”-The Journal of Southern History"By considering how both neglected and familiar literary materials 'propose an Africanist presence as the object cause of desire,' White and Drexler expand existing notions of the contours of early American studies. In so doing, they provocatively decode the ways in which the 'Founders' functioned as a system of structuring fictions for the nascent Republic. The Traumatic Colonel is one of the most innovative interventions into our sense of early US cultural development in quite some time. It will have a major impact on the field, and profoundly shape work written in its wake."-Duncan Faherty,author of Remodeling the Nation"Studies of early America should be emboldened by Drexler and White’s attempt to approach questions of racial violence from such a refreshingly idiosyncratic angle.” -American Historical Review Read more About the Author Michael J. Drexler is Professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.  He is editor of Leonora Sansay's Secret History; or The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura and co-editor of Haiti and the Early US: Histories, Textualities, Geographies. Read more

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• Series: America and the Long 19th Century
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: NYU Press (July 11, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 7
• ISBN-13: 37
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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