{"product_id":"the-traumatic-colonel-the-founding-fathers-slavery-and-the-phantasmatic-aaron-burr-paperback-softback-9781479842537","title":"The Traumatic Colonel; The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (Paperback \/ softback) 9781479842537","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Traumatic Colonel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael J. Drexler (Author), Ed White (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479842537\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The Traumatic Colonelis 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 \"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 Colonelis 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 Whites attempt to approach questions of racial violence from such a refreshingly idiosyncratic angle.\" (American Historical Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003e American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical\u003cbr\u003e and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and\u003cbr\u003e Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the\u003cbr\u003e specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements\u003cbr\u003e clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders\u003cbr\u003e took shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race,\u003cbr\u003e and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and\u003cbr\u003e the Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep\u003cbr\u003e anxieties about the United States as a slave nation.\u003cbr\u003e Drexler\u003cbr\u003e and White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time\u003cbr\u003e is the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the\u003cbr\u003e literature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,\u003cbr\u003e the accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his\u003cbr\u003e machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason\u003cbr\u003e trial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary\u003cbr\u003e America to suggest that the figure of \"Burr\" was fundamentally a displaced\u003cbr\u003e fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the\u003cbr\u003e historical and literary fictions of the nation's founding served to repress the\u003cbr\u003e larger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that\u003cbr\u003e repression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles\u003cbr\u003e Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics,\u003cbr\u003e tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate\u003cbr\u003e that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in\u003cbr\u003e U.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670799216920,"sku":"9781479842537","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-traumatic-colonel-the-founding-fathers-slavery-and-the-phantasmatic-aaron-burr-paperback-softback-9781479842537","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}