01705nam a2200349 a 4500 EDZ0000038702 StDuBDS 20150804193949.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110826s2011 nyua fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199896929 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS153.N5 810.9352996073 23 Wilson, Ivy G. Specters of democracy [electronic resource] : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (x, 237 p.) : ill. 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. American literature African American authors History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Democracy in literature. Nationalism in literature. African American authors Political and social views. Discourse analysis, Literary. Rhetoric Political aspects United States History. Print version 9780195337372 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001 38639 38639