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Michael BennettPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS217.S55 B46 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Bringing together key texts of both African American and European American authors, Democratic Discourses shows the important ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. These rereadings avoid the tendency to view antebellum writing as a product primarily of either European American or African American influences and, instead, illustrate the interconnections of white and black literature in the creation and practice of democracy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- American literature — African American authors — History and criticism
- Politics and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- Literature and society — United States — History — 19th century
- Radicalism — United States — History — 19th century
- African Americans — Intellectual life — 19th century
- Abolitionists — United States — Intellectual life
- Antislavery movements in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Radicalism in literature
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Contents
- Democratic discourses: visiting the national anti-slavery bazaar
- Bodily democracy: Frances Ellen Watkins and Walt Whitman sing the body electric
- Gender democracy: Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth argue the case of woman versus women
- Economic democracy: Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau negotiate the Mason-Dixon line
- Aesthetic democracy: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs represent the end(s) of slavery
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- 0813535735
- 0813535727
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