Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 762647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Maddock Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Maddock |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON E M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ante-Oedipus
This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic Wor…
Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge
Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants into discrete species. This essay identifies the current pandemic as a crisis in knowledge—one in which assumptions such as Linnaean categories and species boundaries need re-examining—and explores historical a…
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
Zombie Biopolitics
This essay locates the origin of biopolitics on the Caribbean plantation and elaborates a theory of zombie biopolitics—a phrase used to describe the living death of slavery and to revise, as well, Michel Foucault's dichotomy between sovereign power (which lets live and makes die) and biopower (which makes live and lets die). Zombie biopower, in contrast, makes live as dead. With attention to geography, capitalism, and race as aspects of biopower …
New World Drama
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
With essays from leading and emerging scholars of Haitian and U.S. history, literature, and cultural studies, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States traces the rich terrain of Haitian-U.S. culture and history in the long nineteenth century.
Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive
In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources that are discussed throughout the articles in this volume of Atlantic Studies. Th…
By Design
In response to Vincent Brown's contribution to this roundtable, this article argues for the importance of attending to issues of design in digital humanities projects that aim to recover and reassess the archives of slavery
Atlantic Practices
The Digital Repository Service is a secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community. The DRS was developed by the Northeastern University Library as a tool for University faculty and staff to protect the valuable information and data that has been created as part of the University’s research and instructional mission. It provides long-term security …
Atlantic Practices
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The Secret History of the Early American Novel
Research Article| August 01 2007 The Secret History of the Early American Novel: Leonora Sansay and Revolution in Saint Domingue ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 77–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040010077 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON; The Secret History of the Early American N…
A Message to Our Readers
Sentimental Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Sentimental Aesthetics Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 495–523. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Sentimental Aesthetics. American Literature 1 September 2004; 76 (3): 49…
The Infant Imaginary
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. By Gillian Brown. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 237 pages. $49.95 (cloth) The poignancy of Henry James's short novel, What Maisie Knew, lies in the ascription of liberal agency and powers of consent to a child: the young Maisie is repeatedly asked to choose between her divorced parents despite her circumscribed understanding of their adult lives and rel…
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
Zombie Biopolitics
This essay locates the origin of biopolitics on the Caribbean plantation and elaborates a theory of zombie biopolitics—a phrase used to describe the living death of slavery and to revise, as well, Michel Foucault's dichotomy between sovereign power (which lets live and makes die) and biopower (which makes live and lets die). Zombie biopower, in contrast, makes live as dead. With attention to geography, capitalism, and race as aspects of biopower …
Sentimental Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Sentimental Aesthetics Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 495–523. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Sentimental Aesthetics. American Literature 1 September 2004; 76 (3): 49…
Ante-Oedipus
This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic Wor…
By Design
In response to Vincent Brown's contribution to this roundtable, this article argues for the importance of attending to issues of design in digital humanities projects that aim to recover and reassess the archives of slavery
New World Drama
Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive
In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources that are discussed throughout the articles in this volume of Atlantic Studies. Th…
Atlantic Practices
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The Infant Imaginary
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. By Gillian Brown. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 237 pages. $49.95 (cloth) The poignancy of Henry James's short novel, What Maisie Knew, lies in the ascription of liberal agency and powers of consent to a child: the young Maisie is repeatedly asked to choose between her divorced parents despite her circumscribed understanding of their adult lives and rel…
Sentimental Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Sentimental Aesthetics Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 495–523. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Sentimental Aesthetics. American Literature 1 September 2004; 76 (3): 49…
A Message to Our Readers
The Secret History of the Early American Novel
Research Article| August 01 2007 The Secret History of the Early American Novel: Leonora Sansay and Revolution in Saint Domingue ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 77–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040010077 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON; The Secret History of the Early American N…
Atlantic Practices
The Digital Repository Service is a secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community. The DRS was developed by the Northeastern University Library as a tool for University faculty and staff to protect the valuable information and data that has been created as part of the University’s research and instructional mission. It provides long-term security …
Atlantic Practices
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive
In conjunction with this special issue of Atlantic Studies, the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) – developed at Northeastern University and available at ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources that are discussed throughout the articles in this volume of Atlantic Studies. Th…
By Design
In response to Vincent Brown's contribution to this roundtable, this article argues for the importance of attending to issues of design in digital humanities projects that aim to recover and reassess the archives of slavery
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
With essays from leading and emerging scholars of Haitian and U.S. history, literature, and cultural studies, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States traces the rich terrain of Haitian-U.S. culture and history in the long nineteenth century.
New World Drama
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
Zombie Biopolitics
This essay locates the origin of biopolitics on the Caribbean plantation and elaborates a theory of zombie biopolitics—a phrase used to describe the living death of slavery and to revise, as well, Michel Foucault's dichotomy between sovereign power (which lets live and makes die) and biopower (which makes live and lets die). Zombie biopower, in contrast, makes live as dead. With attention to geography, capitalism, and race as aspects of biopower …
Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge
Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants into discrete species. This essay identifies the current pandemic as a crisis in knowledge—one in which assumptions such as Linnaean categories and species boundaries need re-examining—and explores historical a…
Ante-Oedipus
This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic Wor…
History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)