| Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. Contributor(s): Wilson, Ivy G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195340353 ISBN-13: 9780195340358 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $41.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2010020169 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |