01676nam a2200337 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040002100152050001300173082002300186100001900209245013100228260005800359300004200417520033700459588004700796504005100843650007400894650003700968650002901005650003101034650005801065650003401123650005701157776003301214856009101247EDZ0000038702StDuBDS20150804193949.0m||||||||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110826s2011    nyua   fo|    001 0 eng|d  a9780199896929 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDScStDuBDS 4aPS153.N504a810.93529960732231 aWilson, Ivy G.10aSpecters of democracyh[electronic resource] :bblackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. /cIvy Wilson.  aNew York ;aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (x, 237 p.) :bill.8 aThis 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.  aDescription based on print version record.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 0aAmerican literaturexAfrican American authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aAfrican Americans in literature. 0aDemocracy in literature. 0aNationalism in literature. 0aAfrican American authorsxPolitical and social views. 0aDiscourse analysis, Literary. 0aRhetoricxPolitical aspectszUnited StatesxHistory.08iPrint versionz9780195337372403Oxford scholarship onlineuhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001