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"Libertyanddeath? Citizenshipandnecrophilia? The conjunction 'and' is shocking and is meant to shock. Russ Castronovo sees American political life as the burial ground of many corpses, literal as well as metaphoric. With ruthless determination he digs these up, examines their tell-tale remains, and, in the process, offers a trenchant critique of some consequences of American democracy."-Wai Chee Dimock, author ofResidues of Justice: Literature, Law, PhilosophyRuss Castronovo is the author of 'Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Americanists)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780822327752 and ISBN 0822327759.
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