Empire of Ruin
Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture
From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construction of American national identity and the projection of American power, Empire of Ruin describes a mode of black classicism that has been integral to the larger critique of American politics, aesthetics, and historiography that African American cultural production has more generally advanced. While the classical tradition has provided a repository of ideas and images that have allowed white Americ…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-066360-5
- EAN: 9780190663605
- Produktnummer: 29359153
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 21'605 KB
Über den Autor
John Levi Barnard is an Assistant Professor of English at The College of Wooster.
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