Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S. / Ivy Wilson.

Contents Introduction: In the shadows of citizenship : African Americans and democracy's alterity -- Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue" : African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging -- Merely rhetorical : virtual democracy in William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Rhythm nation : African American poetics and the discourse of freedom -- Black and tan fantasy : Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation -- Framing the margins : geometries of space and American genre painting -- The spectacle of disorder : race, decoration, and the social logic of space -- The colored museum : William "Ehtiop" Wilson and the Afric-American picture gallery -- Conclusion: Shadow and act redux.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index.
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