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Author Wilson, Ivy G.
Title Specters of democracy [electronic resource] : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson.
Publication Info New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.


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Descript x, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents Introduction. In the shadows of citizenship: African Americans and the alterity of democracy -- Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue": African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging -- Merely rhetorical: virtual democracy in clotel -- Rhythm nation: African American poetics and the discourse of freedom -- Black and tan fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation -- Framing the margins: geometries of space and the aesthetics of nationalism -- The spectacle of disorder: race, decoration, and the social -- The colored museum.
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ISBN 9780195337372 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195337379 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195340358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195340353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Author Wilson, Ivy G.
Subject 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.
Descript x, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents Introduction. In the shadows of citizenship: African Americans and the alterity of democracy -- Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue": African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging -- Merely rhetorical: virtual democracy in clotel -- Rhythm nation: African American poetics and the discourse of freedom -- Black and tan fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation -- Framing the margins: geometries of space and the aesthetics of nationalism -- The spectacle of disorder: race, decoration, and the social -- The colored museum.
Note .
ISBN 9780195337372 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195337379 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195340358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195340353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Wilson, Ivy G.
Subject 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.

Subject 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.
Descript x, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents Introduction. In the shadows of citizenship: African Americans and the alterity of democracy -- Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue": African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging -- Merely rhetorical: virtual democracy in clotel -- Rhythm nation: African American poetics and the discourse of freedom -- Black and tan fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation -- Framing the margins: geometries of space and the aesthetics of nationalism -- The spectacle of disorder: race, decoration, and the social -- The colored museum.
Note .
ISBN 9780195337372 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195337379 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195340358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195340353 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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