Afterword-The Racialized Past is Racist Prologue
The Relevance and Resonance of Historical Novels in the Age of Trump
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4855949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathy J Schlund-Vials (The University of Texas at Austin), Cathy J Schlund‐Vials (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 159-170 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlab004 |
| OpenAlex | W3136554041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Situated adjacent to the essentializing logics and combative rhetorics that have largely defined the Trump administration's "war" on history, specifically regarding initiatives such as the "White House Conference on American History" and the "1776 Commission," this afterword considers the distinctive significance and ongoing consequence of ethnic American literary engagements with a frequently debated and still unreconciled US past. To illustrate both the relevance and resonance of such literary productions, the afterword accesses Jackson Bliss's short story "Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories" (which is featured in the special issue) and briefly considers William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the source text for the oft-utilized notion that the past functions as prologue. By way of conclusion, the afterword turns to cultural critic Lisa Lowe's evocative articulation of "reckoning" as a productive and liberatory means of "revisit[ing] times of historical contingency and possibility to consider alternatives that may have been unthought in those times
Art · Art history · Articulation (sociology) · BLISS · Contingency · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Prologue · Relevance (law) · Tempest · White (mutation) · History · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |