Wilson, Ivy G.
Specters of democracy blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / [electronic resource] : Ivy Wilson. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 237 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text interrogates the representational strategies that 19th-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of US citizenship. The book reveals how the task of representing African Americans in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy.
9780199896929 (ebook) : No price
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.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History.--United States
PS153.N5
810.9352996073
Specters of democracy blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / [electronic resource] : Ivy Wilson. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 237 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text interrogates the representational strategies that 19th-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of US citizenship. The book reveals how the task of representing African Americans in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy.
9780199896929 (ebook) : No price
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.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History.--United States
PS153.N5
810.9352996073