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Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S.
- Title
- Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Ivy G.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 237 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-293
- ISBN
- 9780195337372 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0195337379 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780195340358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0195340353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010020169
- OCLC
- 624552255
- Author
- Wilson, Ivy G.
- Title
- Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-293