The Brink of Freedom Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World |
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| Author:
| Kazanjian, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-7410-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2016 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.