Specters of Democracy

Ivy G. Wilson

Original title: Specters of democracy

earliest edition we have, 2011 Oxford University Press, 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), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book reveals how the diff...

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Specters of Democracy edition · 2011 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780199714049
Specters of democracy edition · 2011 · Oxford University Press · 237 pages · 9780195337372
Specters of Democracy edition · 2011 · Oxford University Press · 9781283235587

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