{"product_id":"the-traumatic-colonel-9781479842537","title":"The Traumatic Colonel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003eAmerican political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical\u003cbr\u003eand mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and\u003cbr\u003eEd White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the\u003cbr\u003especifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements\u003cbr\u003eclustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders\u003cbr\u003etook shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race,\u003cbr\u003eand sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and\u003cbr\u003ethe Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep\u003cbr\u003eanxieties about the United States as a slave nation.\u003cbr\u003eDrexler\u003cbr\u003eand White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time\u003cbr\u003eis the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the\u003cbr\u003eliterature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,\u003cbr\u003ethe accusations of sed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Traumatic Colonelis a significant and unique contribution to early US studies, deftly synthesizing the recent historiography on the political economy of slavery in the construction of the US hemispheric empire. Innovative and original, White and Drexler locate Aaron Burr as the symbolic pivot for the representations that emerge politically around the repression of slavery. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for Democracy\u003cbr\u003eBy considering how both neglected and familiar literary materials 'propose an Africanist presence as the object cause of desire,' White and Drexler expand existing notions of the contours of early American studies. In so doing, they provocatively decode the ways in which the 'Founders' functioned as a system of structuring fictions for the nascent Republic. The Traumatic Colonelis one of the most innovative interventions into our sense of early US cultural development in quite some time. It will have a major impact on the field, and profoundly shape work written in its wake. -- Duncan Faherty,author of Remodeling the Nation\u003cbr\u003eStudies of early America should be emboldened by Drexler and Whites attempt to approach questions of racial violence from such a refreshingly idiosyncratic angle. * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents Acknowledgments xi Burrology-Extracts xiii  Introduction 1 1 The Semiotics of the Founders 15 2 Hors Monde, or the Fantasy Structure of Republicanism 42 3 Female Quixotism and the Fantasy of Region 74 4 Burr's Formation, 1800-1804 102 5 Burr's Deployment, 1804-1807 135  Conclusion 168 Notes 181 Index 201 About the Authors 207\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409074790743,"sku":"9781479842537","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479842537.jpg?v=1730505346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-traumatic-colonel-9781479842537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}