Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S.

Publication Data

• Title Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S.
• Author Ivy G. Wilson
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Introduction. In the shadows of citizenship: African Americans and the alterity of democracy
Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue": African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging
Merely rhetorical: virtual democracy in clotel
Rhythm nation: African American poetics and the discourse of freedom
Black and tan fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation
Framing the margins: geometries of space and the aesthetics of nationalism
The spectacle of disorder: race, decoration, and the social
The colored museum.

Topics

• American literature :: African American authors :: History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• Democracy in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• African American authors :: Political and social views
• Discourse analysis, Literary
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Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. by Ivy G. Wilson. ISBN 9780195340358. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.