Maria Seger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Seger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Seger |
| SIGNATURE | SEGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends
This article reads Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (1857) as imagining how extralegal violence might advance economies of dispossession—those mechanisms through which capitalism racializes property, subjection, and expropriation to facilitate accumulation—in free Black communities. This claim extends work in critical ethnic studies on economies of dispossession by turning our attention to the nineteenth century. It also complements C…
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave NarrativeReading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Maria Seger (bio) In 2003, the United States Library of Congress raised ten million dollars—the highest price ever paid for a historical document—to acquire the sole extant copy of the 1507 Waldseemüller world map (Lester xxi). Called “the crown jewel of New World cartography” and “America’s birth certificate,” the 1507 Waldseemüller map (formally ti…
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave NarrativeReading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Maria Seger (bio) In 2003, the United States Library of Congress raised ten million dollars—the highest price ever paid for a historical document—to acquire the sole extant copy of the 1507 Waldseemüller world map (Lester xxi). Called “the crown jewel of New World cartography” and “America’s birth certificate,” the 1507 Waldseemüller map (formally ti…
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World
Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave NarrativeReading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Maria Seger (bio) In 2003, the United States Library of Congress raised ten million dollars—the highest price ever paid for a historical document—to acquire the sole extant copy of the 1507 Waldseemüller world map (Lester xxi). Called “the crown jewel of New World cartography” and “America’s birth certificate,” the 1507 Waldseemüller map (formally ti…
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends
This article reads Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (1857) as imagining how extralegal violence might advance economies of dispossession—those mechanisms through which capitalism racializes property, subjection, and expropriation to facilitate accumulation—in free Black communities. This claim extends work in critical ethnic studies on economies of dispossession by turning our attention to the nineteenth century. It also complements C…
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