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Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution

Cilt: 29 Sayı: 1 27 Haziran 2019
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Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution

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July 4, 1776 marks the national beginnings of the United States and is celebrated as the date of its independence from the imperial dominion of the United Kingdom. This turning point in the history of the nation is accepted as the genesis of the American freedom that champions the unassailable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Amidst the general enthusiasm for freedom, however, the existence of slavery stood out as the ultimate paradox which the new nation had to contend with. Contrary to the accepted historiographical explanations for the incongruous presence of slavery in this land of freedom, the article claims that the principles that defined the US citizenry also drew a racial boundary between white and black communities where whiteness, inflected by nationhood, was held to be coterminous with being American, while other (colored) identities were hyphenated incessantly. The first part of the article addresses the teleological and apologetic explanations for the slavery problem and argues against them by giving a detailed analysis of the inconsistent attitudes of the abolitionist politicians and communities towards African-American populations. The second part of the article studies the black responses to American freedom and Frederick Douglass’s famous speech that excoriates the hypocrisies coiled in the founding principles of the nation.

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  1. Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. New York: Verso Books.
  2. Austin, J. (1962). How to do things with words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  3. Colaiaco, A. J. (2006). Frederick Douglass and the fourth of July. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. Derrida, J. (1984). Otobiographies. Paris: Galilee.
  5. Douglass, F. (2015). What to the slave is the fourth of July? South Carolina: Another Leaf Press.
  6. Genovese, E. (1988). The world the slaveholders made: Two essays in interpretation. New York: Pantheon Books.
  7. Habermas, J. (1991). The structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
  8. Jameson, J. F. (1973). The American revolution considered as a social movement. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

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Yayımlanma Tarihi

27 Haziran 2019

Gönderilme Tarihi

14 Şubat 2019

Kabul Tarihi

28 Mart 2019

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2019 Cilt: 29 Sayı: 1

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APA
Çelikkol, A. (2019). Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 29(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2019-0011
AMA
1.Çelikkol A. Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 2019;29(1):41-58. doi:10.26650/LITERA2019-0011
Chicago
Çelikkol, Aşkın. 2019. “Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 29 (1): 41-58. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2019-0011.
EndNote
Çelikkol A (01 Haziran 2019) Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 29 1 41–58.
IEEE
[1]A. Çelikkol, “Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution”, Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, c. 29, sy 1, ss. 41–58, Haz. 2019, doi: 10.26650/LITERA2019-0011.
ISNAD
Çelikkol, Aşkın. “Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 29/1 (01 Haziran 2019): 41-58. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2019-0011.
JAMA
1.Çelikkol A. Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 2019;29:41–58.
MLA
Çelikkol, Aşkın. “Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, c. 29, sy 1, Haziran 2019, ss. 41-58, doi:10.26650/LITERA2019-0011.
Vancouver
1.Aşkın Çelikkol. Re-publicizing the Nation: Slavery and the American Revolution. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 01 Haziran 2019;29(1):41-58. doi:10.26650/LITERA2019-0011