TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson, Ivy G.
TI  - Specters of democracy: blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. 
SN  - 9780199896
AV  - PS153.N5 
U1  - 810.9352996073 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Democracy in literature
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Discourse analysis, Literary
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337372.001.0001
ER  -