Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
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Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.. Ivy G. Wilson. Abstract. This book interrogates the representational.
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Wilson Abstract This book interrogates the representational strategies that 19th-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of U. More This book interrogates the representational strategies that 19th-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of U.
Wilson's core argument, supported by a rich body of evidence from literature and art especially, should inspire fresh readings of the subject of race in nineteenth-century America. His book casts a brave new light on our understanding of this vexed but vital topic. Wilson aims to forge a new understanding of black citizenship, which began to move from shadow to substance in the era before the Civil War.
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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. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Wilson aims to forge a new understanding of black citizenship, which began to move from shadow to substance in the era before the Civil War. Em marked it as to-read Jun 12, Classical, Early, and Medieval Poetry and Poets: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Davis, University of Pennsylvania " Specters of Democracy gives close attention to visual media, providing a suggestive new theorization of how visual and aural aspects of print culture help produce U.
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Oxford Scholarship Online This book is available as part of Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level. Wilson Challenges received opinions on the literature of the American Renaissance Offers new perspectives on Melville's Benito Cereno , Brown's Clotel , and Whitman's Leaves of Grass Combines perspectives from nineteenth-century literature and culture to present an engaging cultural history.
Davis, University of Pennsylvania " Specters of Democracy gives close attention to visual media, providing a suggestive new theorization of how visual and aural aspects of print culture help produce U.