The Claims of Experience: Autobiography and American Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780197588246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Nolan Bennett

Recenzje

Bennett shows us that, throughout American history, Americans have found a creative way to challenge and expand the 'we' [of 'We the People']...they have done so through autobiography."-Susan McWilliams Barndt, Perspectives on Politics

O autorze

Nolan Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is a scholar of American political thought, and his research considers why and to what effect historical actors and movements ground their claims for democratic justice in personal experience. He recovers genres like autobiography, slave narrative, and prison writing as appeals to popular authority and representation not found in state or electoral politics. Nolan is particularly interested in issues of prison reform and punishment in the United States, inspired by the long history of prison writing, and with a committed interest to teaching in carceral spaces.