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Direct democracy collective power, the swarm, and the literatures of the Americas / Scott Henkel.
| Author/creator | Henkel, Scott |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Caribbean studies series |
| Abstract | "Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a form of organization fit for worker cooperatives or political movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective power, based on the massive slave revolt in Haiti. In the representations of slaves, women, and workers, Henkel traces a history of power through the literatures of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. Thinking about democracy as a type of power presents a challenge to common, often bureaucratic and limited interpretations of the term and opens an alternative archive, which Henkel argues includes C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas, Lucy Parsons's speeches advocating for the eight-hour workday, B. Traven's novels of the Mexican Revolution, and Marie Vieux Chauvet's novella about Haitian dictatorship. Henkel asserts that each writer recognized this power and represented its physical manifestation as a swarm. This metaphor bears a complicated history, often describing a group, a movement, or a community. Indeed it conveys multiplicity and complexity, a collective power. This metaphor's many uses illustrate Henkel's main concerns, the problems of democracy, slavery, and labor, the dynamics of racial repression and resistance, and the issues of power which run throughout the Americas."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Henkel, Scott, author. Direct democracy Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 9781496812254 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017015361 |
| ISBN | 9781496812261 (epub single) |
| ISBN | 9781496812278 (epub institutional) |
| ISBN | 9781496812285 ( pdf single) |
| ISBN | 9781496812292 (pdf institutional) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |