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Specters of Democracy
Ivy G. Wilson
其他書名
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
出版Oxford University Press, 2011-05-27
主題Literary Criticism / American / African American & BlackLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN01998437249780199843725
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rubJvMWsg-4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.