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Specters of Democracy
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
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Artikel-Nr:
9780195340358
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.06.2011
Seiten:
252
Autor:
Ivy G Wilson
Gewicht:
374 g
Format:
236x156x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book reveals how the difficult tasks of representing African Americans-both enslaved and free-in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy itself.
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