Democratic Discourses

Informationen zum Autor Michael Bennett! an associate professor of English at Long Island University! is the co-editor of Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women and The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments. Klappentext 'Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body! gender! economics! and aesthetics! this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US. Zusammenfassung 'Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body! gender! economics! and aesthetics! this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US.

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These re-readings 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. Drawing on discourses about the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this unique study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the United States today.

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'Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US.