blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S Wilson, Ivy G. creator text nyu New York Oxford Oxford University Press 2011 monographic eng

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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. specialized Ivy Wilson. 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 PS153.N5 810.9352996073 9780199896929 (ebook) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001 StDuBDS 110826 20150804193949.0 EDZ0000038702