The suicidal state : race suicide, biopower, and the sexuality of population /
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Race That Kills Itself
- Animating the Social Body
- Immigration Restrictions and the Biologization of the Social Body
- The Sexuality of Population
- Suicide, a Biopolitical Scandal
- Literary Counter-Conduct
- 1 Sacrificial Ecstasy: The Bostonians, Neurasthenia, and the "Obscure Hurt"
- "Poodle Henry James"
- The Neurasthenic Race
- The Wounded Body Social
- "The Ecstasy of the Martyr"
- Still Waiting, Princess Casamassima
- 2 Flirting with Death: The Awakening's Liberal Erotic Economy and the Consuming Desire of New Women
- Squandering Family Property
- The Alien Hands of Liberalism
- Free Erotic Economy of Creoles
- Parthenogenesis of the New Women
- Consummating the Consuming Desire
- 3 The Spectral Lineage: Jack London, Teutonism, and Interspecies Kinship
- Wolf vs. Bear
- London's Northland Teutonism
- Kinship in Alaska
- Unnatural Nuptials in The Call of the Wild
- "If the Writer Is a Sorcerer"
- 4 Gertrude Stein's Melting Pot: Jewishness and the Excretory Pleasure of The Making of Americans
- The Pot-au-Feu of New Immigrants
- Recovering the Absented Presence of Jewishness
- Denaturalizing Procreative Familialism
- Mr. Pottie and the Fantasy of Anal Pregnancy
- Populational Imagination of "Each One Is One"
- Coda: Hindsight 20/20, or Asiatic Im-Personality
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index