Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Ivy G.
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	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.
Physical Description:	x, 237 pages
Format:	Book

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.