Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
by
Ivy G. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
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),...