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- Title
Narrating Slow Violence: Post-Reconstruction's Necropolitics and Speculating beyond Liberal Antirace Fiction.
- Authors
Knadler, Stephen
- Abstract
The article explores the American literary history of slow violence through the works of writers W. E. B. Du Bois and Charles Chestnutt. It examines how the emergence of 19th-century notions of linear, progressive, quantifiable time underwrote national myths, a capitalist discipline of productivity and heteronormative familial reproduction. It also looks at the unstoried history of slow violence within post-Reconstruction America.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DU Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963; CHESNUTT, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; 19TH century American literature -- History &; criticism; HISTORY of violence; VIOLENCE; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
2166-742X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jnc.2017.0003