Specters of democracy

Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book reveals how the difficult tasks of representing African Americans - both enslaved and free - in imaingative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy itself.

שנה

2011

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

237

ISBN

9780195337372

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata