Deak Nabers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deak Nabers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deak |
| FAMILY NAME | Nabers |
| SIGNATURE | NABERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shadows of Law
“Shadows of Law: Melville, Stowe, and the Government of Freedom” charts the shifting relations between legal authority and African-American civil rights from the 1850s to ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments in the 1860s. Focusing on the function of trope of the law’s shadow in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Melville’s Battle-Pieces (1866), the essay records the process whereby the law was transformed in antislavery disc…
Past Using James Baldwin and Civil Rights Law in the 1960s
This essay charts the intersecting relations between social and historical accounts of the nature of American racial inequality in Baldwin's essays and in the broader discourse of American civil rights in the 1960s. It maintains that the history of racial inequality achieves a new political salience over the course of the 1960s, that it achieves this salience because it serves as a proxy for those features of racial disadvantage deriving from som…
The Problem of Revolution in the Age of Slavery
This essay situates William Wells Brown's novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1854) in the context of Anglo-American antislavery challenges to the legitimacy of the American Revolution on the eve of the Civil War. Brown's ambivalent approach to Thomas Jefferson in his novel matches what could be seen in the 1850s as Jefferson's ambivalent approach to human rights as a revolutionary leader. In foregrounding authorial power over his charact…
Victory of LAW
Research Article| March 01 2003 “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction Deak Nabers Deak Nabers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Deak Nabers; “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction. American Literature 1 March 2003; 75 (1): 1–30. doi…
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
The Problem of Revolution in the Age of Slavery
This essay situates William Wells Brown's novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1854) in the context of Anglo-American antislavery challenges to the legitimacy of the American Revolution on the eve of the Civil War. Brown's ambivalent approach to Thomas Jefferson in his novel matches what could be seen in the 1850s as Jefferson's ambivalent approach to human rights as a revolutionary leader. In foregrounding authorial power over his charact…
Victory of LAW
Research Article| March 01 2003 “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction Deak Nabers Deak Nabers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Deak Nabers; “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction. American Literature 1 March 2003; 75 (1): 1–30. doi…
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
Victory of LAW
Research Article| March 01 2003 “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction Deak Nabers Deak Nabers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Deak Nabers; “Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction. American Literature 1 March 2003; 75 (1): 1–30. doi…
Past Using James Baldwin and Civil Rights Law in the 1960s
This essay charts the intersecting relations between social and historical accounts of the nature of American racial inequality in Baldwin's essays and in the broader discourse of American civil rights in the 1960s. It maintains that the history of racial inequality achieves a new political salience over the course of the 1960s, that it achieves this salience because it serves as a proxy for those features of racial disadvantage deriving from som…
The Problem of Revolution in the Age of Slavery
This essay situates William Wells Brown's novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1854) in the context of Anglo-American antislavery challenges to the legitimacy of the American Revolution on the eve of the Civil War. Brown's ambivalent approach to Thomas Jefferson in his novel matches what could be seen in the 1850s as Jefferson's ambivalent approach to human rights as a revolutionary leader. In foregrounding authorial power over his charact…
Shadows of Law
“Shadows of Law: Melville, Stowe, and the Government of Freedom” charts the shifting relations between legal authority and African-American civil rights from the 1850s to ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments in the 1860s. Focusing on the function of trope of the law’s shadow in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Melville’s Battle-Pieces (1866), the essay records the process whereby the law was transformed in antislavery disc…
History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ambivalence (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work)