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03839aam a2200565 i 4500 001 0C361C04621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170329s2017 msu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016054686 020 $a 1496812255 020 $a 9781496812254 035 $a (OCoLC)962552471 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s------ $a s------ 050 00 $a PN846 $b .H46 2017 082 00 $a 809/.897 $2 23 084 $a SOC056000 $a SOC001000 $a SOC056000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Henkel, Scott, $e author. 245 10 $a Direct democracy : $b collective power, the swarm, and the literatures of the Americas / $c Scott Henkel. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2017] 300 $a xii, 209 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Caribbean studies series 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 651 0 $a America $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Democracy in literature. 650 0 $a Democracy $z America. 650 0 $a Democracy and the arts $z America. 650 0 $a Social movements $z America $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Caribbean & Latin American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x African American Studies. $x African American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Black Studies (Global) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a Democracy and the arts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890119 650 7 $a Democracy in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890120 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Social movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122657 651 7 $a America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239786 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Henkel, Scott. $t Direct democracy. $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 $z 9781496812261 $w (DLC) 2017015361 830 0 $a Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710074515.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107013716.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C361C04621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search