David Kazanjian
Biographic Data
| ID | 602106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Kazanjian |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Kazanjian |
| SIGNATURE | KAZANJIAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Infrastructure in Black
This essay interprets a 1714 petition by five Black Bostonians as a challenge to the role infrastructure played in racial capitalism's development in colonial New England. It theorizes this petition as an "ante-commons," or a collective action at once before, alongside, and apposite to colonial modes of possession. It further shows how commons in early America did not simply oppose racial capitalism; they often supplemented enclosure, dispossessi…
Freedom’s Surprise
Research Article| October 01 2016 Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives David Kazanjian David Kazanjian David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2016–17 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author, most recently, of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke …
The Brink of Freedom
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, mult…
Scenes of Speculation
This contribution to a roundtable on the question of recovery makes a case for overreading the archives of the black Atlantic diaspora not only for what they tell us about who did what, where, and when but also for scenes of speculative thought. The author draws on his research into black settler colonization of Liberia to make this case
To see the Issue of these his exorbitant practices”
This essay responds to the articles included in the special issue of ECTI, “The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century,” and uses its response to those essays, plus a reading of archival documents from a law suit brought by a slaveholder against a former slave, to argue that racialized systems of accumulation during the eighteenth century proceeded by dispossession and possession all at once
Hegel, Liberia
Hegel, Liberia David Kazanjian (bio) A Review of Susan Buck-Morss. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). [End Page 6] while they have them their the cow hide is hardly ever off of their backs and when they come here they feal So free that they walk about from morning till evening with out doing one Stroke of work by those means they becom to Sufer — Samson Ceasar, letter to Henry R. Westfall, June …
The Speculative Freedom of Colonial Liberia
This essay examines letters written by U.S. black settler-colonists in Liberia to their families, friends, and former masters in the United States during Liberia's colonial and early national periods, 1820-1855. It argues that the letters stage speculative, epistolary encounters with freedom that evade strictly historicist interpretive methods. Consequently, the essay proffers a reading practice that attends to the letters' speculative reflection…
Marxism
This essay reflects on the import of Marxism for the history of Social Text. It argues that Marxism can be understood as a mode of challenging frameworks for thought rather than as a framework in and of itself
From somewhere else
You leave me stranded, alone to defend myself, alone to convince you of so many things you must already know. Or have you forgotten? Has this place made you forget our history? Has this place that
Mercantile Exchanges, Mercantilist Enclosures
Recent historical research has documented the striking rise of black men employed in seafaring industries on the North Atlantic during the eighteenth century, and their similarly striking decline during the nineteenth century. 3 Between 1740 and 1820, we see large numbers of North Atlantic black men, both free and enslaved, going to sea as common sailors, and occasionally as mates and captains. This rise is also reflected in black Atlantic litera…
Loss
Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, a…
To Ship as Cook”
Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation
Research Article| September 01 2001 Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist David Kazanjian David Kazanjian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Kazanjian…
Mass Mediating Diaspora
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Mass Mediating Diaspora: Iranian Exile Culture in Los Angeles David Kazanjian University of California, Berkeley Anahid Kassabian Fordham University The Making of Exile Cultures—Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Hamid Naficy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. In this most recent era oftransnational movements oflabor, commodity , capital, and information, distinctions among cultures and conditions of exile, diasp…
Loss
Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, a…
The Brink of Freedom
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, mult…
Scenes of Speculation
This contribution to a roundtable on the question of recovery makes a case for overreading the archives of the black Atlantic diaspora not only for what they tell us about who did what, where, and when but also for scenes of speculative thought. The author draws on his research into black settler colonization of Liberia to make this case
Freedom’s Surprise
Research Article| October 01 2016 Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives David Kazanjian David Kazanjian David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2016–17 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author, most recently, of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke …
Mercantile Exchanges, Mercantilist Enclosures
Recent historical research has documented the striking rise of black men employed in seafaring industries on the North Atlantic during the eighteenth century, and their similarly striking decline during the nineteenth century. 3 Between 1740 and 1820, we see large numbers of North Atlantic black men, both free and enslaved, going to sea as common sailors, and occasionally as mates and captains. This rise is also reflected in black Atlantic litera…
The Speculative Freedom of Colonial Liberia
This essay examines letters written by U.S. black settler-colonists in Liberia to their families, friends, and former masters in the United States during Liberia's colonial and early national periods, 1820-1855. It argues that the letters stage speculative, epistolary encounters with freedom that evade strictly historicist interpretive methods. Consequently, the essay proffers a reading practice that attends to the letters' speculative reflection…
To see the Issue of these his exorbitant practices”
This essay responds to the articles included in the special issue of ECTI, “The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century,” and uses its response to those essays, plus a reading of archival documents from a law suit brought by a slaveholder against a former slave, to argue that racialized systems of accumulation during the eighteenth century proceeded by dispossession and possession all at once
Mass Mediating Diaspora
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Mass Mediating Diaspora: Iranian Exile Culture in Los Angeles David Kazanjian University of California, Berkeley Anahid Kassabian Fordham University The Making of Exile Cultures—Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Hamid Naficy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. In this most recent era oftransnational movements oflabor, commodity , capital, and information, distinctions among cultures and conditions of exile, diasp…
Marxism
This essay reflects on the import of Marxism for the history of Social Text. It argues that Marxism can be understood as a mode of challenging frameworks for thought rather than as a framework in and of itself
Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation
Research Article| September 01 2001 Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist David Kazanjian David Kazanjian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Kazanjian…
Mass Mediating Diaspora
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Mass Mediating Diaspora: Iranian Exile Culture in Los Angeles David Kazanjian University of California, Berkeley Anahid Kassabian Fordham University The Making of Exile Cultures—Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Hamid Naficy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. In this most recent era oftransnational movements oflabor, commodity , capital, and information, distinctions among cultures and conditions of exile, diasp…
Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation
Research Article| September 01 2001 Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist David Kazanjian David Kazanjian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Kazanjian…
Loss
Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, a…
To Ship as Cook”
Mercantile Exchanges, Mercantilist Enclosures
Recent historical research has documented the striking rise of black men employed in seafaring industries on the North Atlantic during the eighteenth century, and their similarly striking decline during the nineteenth century. 3 Between 1740 and 1820, we see large numbers of North Atlantic black men, both free and enslaved, going to sea as common sailors, and occasionally as mates and captains. This rise is also reflected in black Atlantic litera…
From somewhere else
You leave me stranded, alone to defend myself, alone to convince you of so many things you must already know. Or have you forgotten? Has this place made you forget our history? Has this place that
Marxism
This essay reflects on the import of Marxism for the history of Social Text. It argues that Marxism can be understood as a mode of challenging frameworks for thought rather than as a framework in and of itself
The Speculative Freedom of Colonial Liberia
This essay examines letters written by U.S. black settler-colonists in Liberia to their families, friends, and former masters in the United States during Liberia's colonial and early national periods, 1820-1855. It argues that the letters stage speculative, epistolary encounters with freedom that evade strictly historicist interpretive methods. Consequently, the essay proffers a reading practice that attends to the letters' speculative reflection…
Hegel, Liberia
Hegel, Liberia David Kazanjian (bio) A Review of Susan Buck-Morss. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). [End Page 6] while they have them their the cow hide is hardly ever off of their backs and when they come here they feal So free that they walk about from morning till evening with out doing one Stroke of work by those means they becom to Sufer — Samson Ceasar, letter to Henry R. Westfall, June …
To see the Issue of these his exorbitant practices”
This essay responds to the articles included in the special issue of ECTI, “The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century,” and uses its response to those essays, plus a reading of archival documents from a law suit brought by a slaveholder against a former slave, to argue that racialized systems of accumulation during the eighteenth century proceeded by dispossession and possession all at once
Scenes of Speculation
This contribution to a roundtable on the question of recovery makes a case for overreading the archives of the black Atlantic diaspora not only for what they tell us about who did what, where, and when but also for scenes of speculative thought. The author draws on his research into black settler colonization of Liberia to make this case
Freedom’s Surprise
Research Article| October 01 2016 Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives David Kazanjian David Kazanjian David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2016–17 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author, most recently, of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke …
The Brink of Freedom
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, mult…
Infrastructure in Black
This essay interprets a 1714 petition by five Black Bostonians as a challenge to the role infrastructure played in racial capitalism's development in colonial New England. It theorizes this petition as an "ante-commons," or a collective action at once before, alongside, and apposite to colonial modes of possession. It further shows how commons in early America did not simply oppose racial capitalism; they often supplemented enclosure, dispossessi…
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