Ivy G. Wilson

Specters of Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199843725
• Artikelnr.: 38142215

Autorenporträt

Ivy G. Wilson is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is the editor of At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman and the coeditor, with Robert S. Levine, of The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction. In the Shadows of Citizenship: African Americans and
the Alterity of Democracy
* Version and Subversion: The Aurality of Democratic Rhetoric
* 1.: Frederick Douglass's "Glib-tongue": African American Rhetoric and
the Language of National Belonging
* 2.: Merely Rhetorical: Virtual Democracy in Clotel
* 3.: Rhythm Nation: African American Poetics and the Discourse of
Freedom
* 4.: . Black and Tan Fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and
Sounding the Nation
* Imagining the Nation and Democratic Visuality
* 5.: Framing the Margins: Geometries of Space and the Aesthetics of
Nationalism
* 6.: The Spectacle of Disorder: Race, Decoration, and the Social Logic
of Space
* 7.: The Colored Museum
* Conclusion. Shadow and Act Redux
* Works Cited