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Untimely democracy : (Record no. 567429)
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| fixed length control field | 02468cam a2200229 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170629s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780197624128 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | pbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9896 |
| Item number | LAS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Laski, Gregory, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Untimely democracy : |
| Sub Title | the politics of progress after slavery / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Gregory Laski. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 269 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
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| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and activists, both black and white. Conventional narratives of democracy stretching from Thomas Jefferson's America to our own posit a purposeful break between past and present as the key to the viability of this political form--the only way to ensure its continual development. But for Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Callie House, and the other figures examined in this book, the campaign to secure liberty and equality for all citizens proceeds most potently when it refuses the precepts of progressive time. Placing these authors' post-Civil War writings into dialogue with debates about racial optimism and pessimism, tracts on progress, and accounts of ex-slave pension activism, and extending their insights into our contemporary period, Laski recovers late-nineteenth-century literature as a vibrant site for doing political theory. Untimely Democracy ultimately shows how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of our most fundamental assumptions about this political system. Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible."-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American literature |
| Topical Term | Progress in literature. |
| Topical Term | Democracy in literature. |
| Topical Term | Slavery in literature. |
| Topical Term | African Americans in literature. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 4TH FLOOR, B WING | 17.10.2024 | 810.9896 LAS | 699071 | 28.12.2024 | English Books |