{"product_id":"bonds-of-citizenship-9780814771709","title":"Bonds of Citizenship","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this study of literature and law from the Constitutional  founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American  citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the  racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor.  Bonds of Citizenship  illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of  citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labor ideology in  American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhan argues that in the age of Emancipation the  cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal  rights and privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus  became identified with the nation-state.  He situates the emergence of  American citizenship and the American novel within the context of  Atlantic slavery and Anglo-American legal culture, placing early  American texts by Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Benjamin Franklin, and  Charles Brockden Brown alongside Black Atlantic texts by Ottobah Cugoano  and Olaudah Equiano. Beginning with a revisionary reading of the  Constitution’s “slavery clauses,” Phan recovers indentured servitude as a  transitional form of labor bondage that helped define the key terms of  modern U.S. citizenship: mobility, volition, and contract.  Bonds of Citizenship  demonstrates how citizenship and civic culture were transformed by  antebellum debates over slavery, free labor, and national Union, while  analyzing the writings of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville  alongside a wide-ranging archive of lesser-known antebellum legal and  literary texts in the context of changing conceptions of  constitutionalism, property, and contract. Situated at the nexus of  literary criticism, legal studies, and labor history, Bonds of Citizenship challenges the founding fiction of a pro-slavery Constitution central to American letters and legal culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hoang Gia Phan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273444700411,"sku":"9780814771709","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_55a59b7d-c5c1-4ac1-a252-5822a26cc676.jpg?v=1777609487","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/bonds-of-citizenship-9780814771709","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}