Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-533737-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC
Specters of Democracy interrogates the representational strategies that nineteenth-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of U.S. citizenship. The book reveals how the difficult task of representing African Americans-both enslaved and free-in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy. More specifically, the book analyzes how African Americans manipulated aurality and visuality in art that depicted images of national belonging not only as a mode of critique but as an iteration or articulation of democratic representation itself.
Such a turn to culture as a particular arena where African Americans had varying levels of agency is all the more necessary in the years before they were ostensibly granted access to formal political structures with the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Recovering important aspects of the African American presence in the debates about democracy and citizenship, this book focuses on the mutual engagement with the national idioms by both black and white Americans and illustrates how African Americans in particular deployed artistic practices to enact a more egalitarian society.
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. In the Shadows of Citizenship: African Americans and the Alterity of Democracy
- 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 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
- Imagining the Nation and Democratic Visuality
- 5.: Framing the Margins: Geometries of Space and the Aesthetics of Nationalism
- 6.: The Spectacle of Disorder: Race, Decoration, and the Social Logic of Space
- 7.: The Colored Museum
- Conclusion. Shadow and Act Redux
- Works Cited
