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Wilson, Ivy G.

Specters of democracyblackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Specters of democracyIvy Wilson.
Reminder of title:	blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. /
Author:	Wilson, Ivy G.
Published:	New York ;Oxford University Press,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 237 p.) :ill.
Subject:	American literatureAfrican American authors
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001
ISBN:	9780199896929 (ebook) :

Specters of democracyblackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. /
Wilson, Ivy G.

Specters of democracyblackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. /[electronic resource] :Ivy Wilson. - New York ;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.

ISBN: 9780199896929 (ebook) :No priceSubjects--Topical Terms:

214599
American literature
--African American authors

LC Class. No.: PS153.N5

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9'352996073

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