Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-534035-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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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
