Specters of Democracy
Oxford University Press

Specters of Democracy

Subjects: Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN13: 9780195340358
Published: 31 Mar 2011

Format - Paperback / softback
By Wilson, Ivy G.

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Specters of Democracy

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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 imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy itself.

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