Empire of Ruin —— Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture

----- 废墟帝国：黑色古典主义与美国帝国文化

ISBN: 9780190663599 出版年：2017 页码：249 Barnard, John Levi Oxford University Press

Empire of Ruin traces the cultural history and reception of the classical tradition in African American cultural production. While the classical tradition has provided a repository of ideas that have allowed white American elites to conceive of the nation as an ideal Republic, Empire of Ruin offers a critical counter-narrative, showing how African American writers, artists, and activists have characterized this as emblematic of a national commitment to an economy of enslavement and a geopolitical project of empire.