Nicholas T Rinehart
Biographic Data
| ID | 799358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas T Rinehart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas T |
| FAMILY NAME | Rinehart |
| SIGNATURE | RINEHART N T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essence of Stillness: Temporality and Materiality in the Dioramas of Gerrit Schouten
By reassessing Gerrit Schouten’s papier-mâché dioramas depicting the lives of enslaved and free Africans in early nineteenth-century Suriname, this article aims to complicate and challenge current and past reception of the artist’s life and work. A free person of color who has been dubbed “the most important artist in Suriname in the nineteenth century” as well as the first professional artist to emerge from the Caribbean, Gerrit Schouten’s manip…
Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas
Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave testimony, the canonization of Anglo-American poets like Phillis Wheatley and Jupiter Hammon has eclipsed the…
Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition
Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various characters. This generalized preoccupation with the explicitly political or historical contours of the novel f…
The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery
This essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians conceptualize how New World slavery contributed to the ongoing development of global finance capitalism—namely, that…
I Talk More of The French: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers' Project
This essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades-namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “arenas” to examine their overlap in the French Creole culture of Louisiana. It focuses on the “other” sl…
The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery
This essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians conceptualize how New World slavery contributed to the ongoing development of global finance capitalism—namely, that…
I Talk More of The French: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers' Project
This essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades-namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “arenas” to examine their overlap in the French Creole culture of Louisiana. It focuses on the “other” sl…
The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery
This essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians conceptualize how New World slavery contributed to the ongoing development of global finance capitalism—namely, that…
I Talk More of The French: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers' Project
This essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades-namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “arenas” to examine their overlap in the French Creole culture of Louisiana. It focuses on the “other” sl…
Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition
Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various characters. This generalized preoccupation with the explicitly political or historical contours of the novel f…
Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas
Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave testimony, the canonization of Anglo-American poets like Phillis Wheatley and Jupiter Hammon has eclipsed the…
Essence of Stillness: Temporality and Materiality in the Dioramas of Gerrit Schouten
By reassessing Gerrit Schouten’s papier-mâché dioramas depicting the lives of enslaved and free Africans in early nineteenth-century Suriname, this article aims to complicate and challenge current and past reception of the artist’s life and work. A free person of color who has been dubbed “the most important artist in Suriname in the nineteenth century” as well as the first professional artist to emerge from the Caribbean, Gerrit Schouten’s manip…
History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Historiography (2 works)