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1. Specters of Democracy

   Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U. S
   Autor*in: Wilson, Ivy G.

   Erschienen: 2011; ©2011

   Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Cary

   Specters of Democracy is undergirded by three principal lines of critical inquiry. Firstly, it correlates representation in art with representation in politics as a specific cultural juncture and as a particular concern of African American writers at... mehr

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   Specters of Democracy is undergirded by three principal lines of critical inquiry. Firstly, it correlates representation in art with representation in politics as a specific cultural juncture and as a particular concern of African American writers at this historical moment-something that I am calling the "aesthetics of nationalism." Secondly, it argues that politics can become strategically discursive, almost as a replacement of physicality itself; a phenomenon that is especially noticeable when one considers the enslaved black body. In the case of African America, especially post-Fugitive Slave Law when physical movement becomes even more restricted and tenuous, democratic discourse, ironically, becomes increasingly mobile and transcendent, seemingly separated from black bodies themselves, thereby creating a de-territorialized field of political engagement less bound to physical location. Thirdly, the book theorizes the disjunction between the aesthetic and the political as an important liminal space: the realm of the spectral. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the Shadows of Citizenship: African Americans and Democracy's Alterity -- PART ONE: Version and Subversion: The Aurality of Democratic Rhetoric -- 1 Frederick Douglass's "Glib-tongue": African American Rhetoric and the Language of National Belonging -- 2 Merely Rhetorical: Virtual Democracy in William Wells Brown's Clotel -- 3 Rhythm Nation: African American Poetics and the Discourse of Freedom -- 4 Black and Tan Fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and Sounding the Nation -- PART TWO: Visuality and the Optical Illusions of National Belonging -- 5 Framing the Margins: Geometries of Space and American Genre Painting -- 6 The Spectacle of Disorder: Race, Decoration, and the Social Logic of Space -- 7 The Colored Museum: William "Ethiop" Wilson and the Afric-American Picture Gallery -- Conclusion: Shadow and Act Redux -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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   Quelle:	Verbundkataloge
   Sprache:	Englisch
   Medientyp:	Ebook
   Format:	Online
   ISBN:	9780199714049
   Schlagworte:	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; Electronic books
   Umfang:	1 online resource (250 pages)
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